"Korean feminism is on the brink of death. Korea has a less clear boundary between popular literature and serious literature than in other countries. I feel that feminism is abandoned like a product that was a craze in the past."

-- Kim Hyesoon

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“It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.”
“You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.”
“I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.”

Source : "Pinch Spaceships, Look Stupid: Living The Life Of A Giant Space Crab" by Ryan Rigney, www.wired.com. April 26, 2013.
“I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.”
“I didnâ€™t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldnâ€™t work.”
“Sometimes I've gone out there and thought to myself, 'Don't miss this one, don't miss it.' I don't think about that anymore. It just comes natural.”
“Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it”
“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.”

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