Even today, I'm much more comfortable dressed in a male kind of way. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
No matter how sheltered [my students] are, no matter how their parents try to do right by them, every single one of… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In short, for me - I'm kind of projecting onto you - distraction has become a modus vivendi, a way of life.… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
For a while they wore suits or pants suits, and pants suits are kind of a women's appropriation of male costume, work… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
If the act of writing is the act of putting aside the masculine, then you might in that way, it may sound… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In that way, I don't understand myself. It might have to do with my own conflicts, where to place my body as… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Wouldn't that be wonderful if I could do that? And that way, I could walk with the muse, rather than walk without… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In a way, this kind of insight or recognition often permeates the way I think of character, how I plot action, and… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Quite a while ago, I made a conscious choice to place my teaching first, so it was very ego-invested. That decision wasn't… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In Sister Swing, the two sisters have boyfriends and they go to bed with them, but the descriptions are not graphic. They're… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
In the same way, the people whom I most abhor, I abhor them for elements that I abhor in myself. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Once you stop talking about the female body empowering itself vis-à-vis male forays or invasions or male demands or the necessity to respond to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
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