"It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society is based on both a politics and history that have been disguised as a solid society of solid male poems, a solid written language, fixed rules of how to write literature, and a narrative language."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Kim Hyesoon

#Writing Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Literature Quotes

“A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings ...”
“I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.”
“We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.”
“The reality is that these cases are happening all the time. It's when they get out of control that you have a problem.”
“Women are the carriers of life. We hold the fruit of our loving beneath our hearts.”
“The stain of prejudice is often indelible.”
“I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago - until the Republicans brought them back.”
“in the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.”

Source : Shusha Guppy (2004). “Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood”, p.38, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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