Shirley Geok-lin Lim Quotes About Running
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I was not - even the notion of "could not" seems to suggest a moment of recognition, but it was such a repressed dimension - I was not able to NOT wear a shirt like my brothers could. My brothers would, in the heat, run around shirtless, and I wouldn't do that, obviously.
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I'm much more comfortable in pants and shirts, running around. There was a typical construction about womanhood when I was growing up that I rejected.
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New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades.
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With so many brothers, I could always find a pair of shorts to borrow and run around in.
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