itsthetrees’s Reviews > The Woman Warrior > Status Update

"The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar . . . What we have in common are the words at our backs. The ideographs for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance - not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words. And I have so many words - 'chink' words and 'gook' words too - that they do not fit on my skin."