"Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Kim Hyesoon

#Girl Quotes #Korea Quotes #World Quotes

“I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If I have a carapace of academic presentability, it is thanks to the wonderful teachers I had.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“I'm amazed, that how salam (peace) is always the first word to start a meeting. but in prayer it is the end word. Maybe it means the end of prayer is the start of a meeting.”
“If it isn't on Google, it doesn't exist.”
“Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.”
“Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.”
“Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell.”

Source : Marc Ecko (2015). “Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out”, p.285, Simon and Schuster
“Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.”
“My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.”

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