Activity Quote by Kim Hyesoon

“South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in certain communities in Korea, you cannot even imagine how severe sex discrimination is.” quote by Kim Hyesoon — Download Open image

“South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in certain communities in Korea, you cannot even imagine how severe sex discrimination is.”

Kim Hyesoon

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Activity Certain Community Country Discrimination Disgusting Employment Imagine Korea Opportunity Severe Sex Sex discrimination Social South South korea Worst

More by Kim Hyesoon

Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity…

Kim Hyesoon

Image

Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also…

Kim Hyesoon

Image

Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in…

Kim Hyesoon

Image

Korean feminism is on the brink of death. Korea has a less clear boundary between popular literature and serious literature than in other countries.…

Kim Hyesoon

Image

We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing…

Kim Hyesoon

Image

Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger…

Kim Hyesoon

Image

In Korea, a woman must first obey her father, then her husband when she becomes an ajuma, and finally obey her son as a…

Kim Hyesoon

Image

Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.…

Kim Hyesoon

Image

When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but…

Kim Hyesoon

Image

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

Kim Hyesoon

Image

The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use…

Kim Hyesoon

Image

You cannot call a poem female just because it is written by a woman. Nevertheless, I think attempts to find femininity in female bodies,…

Kim Hyesoon

Image

Explore all 51 Kim Hyesoon quotes

More Activity quotes

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

Henry Giroux

Image

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

Pope Leo XIII

Image

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Plato

Image

And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people…

Mohsin Hamid