"Agency over one's sexual self - and the articulation of that kind of agency - might seem transgressive to readers who don't expect it in a woman's text."

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Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

#Agency Quotes #Self Quotes #Might Quotes

“Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.”
“The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.”
“I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that.”

Source : "Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe". Locus magazine, September 1998.
“Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.”
“But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.”
“My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.”

Source : Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”
“The problem with the American health-care system that it is not working for the American family.”
“As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.”

Source : Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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