"South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in certain communities in Korea, you cannot even imagine how severe sex discrimination is."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Kim Hyesoon

#Country Quotes #Sex Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“You have brought hope to those who have none”
“Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.”
“Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader.”
“When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview.”

Source : Song: He Didn't Have To Be, Album: Who Needs Pictures, 1999
“What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.”
“The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.”
“See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.”
“As kids, my brother David and I longed for acceptance. We were desperate to belong. We would have been thrilled to see the pews of Jones's church in San Francisco, with blacks and whites sitting side by side. And Jim Jones's sermons on social justice and equality would have had much greater appeal to us than the soporific morality tales we were accustomed to hearing. Jones promised real racial equality. He promised to create a truly equal community in the jungle in Guyana.”

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