Even today, I'm much more comfortable dressed in a male kind of way. — 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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“No matter how sheltered [my students] are, no matter how their parents try to do right by them, every single one of them, you know, every single one of us, that's what we all face. And so it's made me - that's the one change I've marked in myself - it's made me change in the way I relate to my…” quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/308/shirley-geok-lin-lim-3190_different_no-matter-how-sheltered-my-students-are_991677.jpg)
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