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    To write out the precepts again, we contend with them, and keep them; we build our humanity, and keep our humanity alive... Thay has named the precepts 'wonderful'... Wonderful because they can protect us, and show us how to live a joyous life, an interesting, adventurous, deep, large life, and how to be with one another, and with animals, plants, and all the Earth and universe. Wonderful because when we practice the precepts, we existentially become humane, we embody loving kindness... Standing in the midst of burning ruins, I was glad that I knew the precepts. Though I kept their tenets imperfectly, even in aspiration I created some invisible good that could not be destroyed... The Five Wonderful Precepts give clear and simple directions to finding that life. In devastation, I have blueprints for making home anew (90-92). --For a Future to Be Possible: Commentaries on the Five Wonderful Precepts


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    Even a hundred years ago he included women and he always used [those phrases] 'men and women' 'male and female. I just love the way Maxine Hong Kingston can make one character live for four hundred years and that Orlando can be a man.

    Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States. Kingston has received several awards for her contributions to Chinese American Literature including the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1981 for China Men. She has contributed to the feminist movement with such works as her memoir The Woman Warrior which discusses gender and ethnicity and how these concepts affect the lives of women.

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