"Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Kim Hyesoon

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Korea Quotes

“Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers.”
“Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.”
“We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.420
“Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.”
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
“Physicality is the basis of performance.”

Source : David Petersen (2007). “The Well-Tempered Body: Expressive Movement for Actors, Improvisers, and Performance Artists”, p.9, David Petersen
“Bush and Blair ... don't understand any language but the language of force. Every time they kill us, we kill them, so the balance of terror is achieved.”
“I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.”

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