"The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly."

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Kim Hyesoon

#Thinking Quotes #Language Quotes #Motherly Quotes

“I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!”
“Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation”
“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.”
“The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for â€¨the existence of God.”

Source : Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.61, Courier Corporation
“Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."”
“The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.”
“I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.”
“I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included”

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