Quotation by Maxine Hong Kingston

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear to be favored by the gods.
Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940), Chinese–American author. The Woman Warrior, ch. 3 (1976).

Explaining her mother's reluctance, when she was a student in a women's medical college in China, to let her classmates know how hard she studied to earn her superior grades.
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