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Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

Source: The Woman Warrior, 1976.
-- Maxine Hong Kingston, (Oct 27 1940-____), US author; Her books blend Chinese-American history, myth; The Woman Warrior, 1977.

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