When you think about the concept of infertility, for example, it's not just medical; it's a repository of so many personal and societal meanings - religious, legal, sexual - encompassing mortality and sin and family and eternity. — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use. — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
Part of my reaction to my diagnosis of infertility was deeply sarcastic and critical, part of it was morbid, part of it was numb,… — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
I don't experience "emotions" then "analyze" them; they always reach me pre-analyzed. — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
When you think about the concept of infertility, for example, it's not just medical; it's a repository of so many personal and societal meanings… — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well. — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
When you talk about "infertility" you're already using a land-based metaphor - a woman's body compared to property, to be considered fruitful or barren.… — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
