“At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.” CertainStruggleTeachingDeclineMothering Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.” WritingWellsKindImportantCertainThreeResearchUniversityAcademicPublishingThree ThingsAcademic Writing Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I don't like crows. In the poem "C," crows are predatory, killing other birds and so forth. But in my morning walks, there were always crows, particularly at certain times of the year. And they're very aggressive, very visible and loud. They're not at all likable, but they have to be dealt with. They are part of the picture, the art in the morning. You cannot deny their reality.” YearsArtRealityCertainWalksMorningBirdKillingDenyLoudVisibleAggressiveCrowPredatoryMorning WalkKilling Others Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I'm the authority and they have to meet a certain standard. It's like, oh, look at these young ones. They've got such a hard road in front of them. I don't envy them having life ahead of them.” LooksHardYoungCertainFrontsStudentsAuthorityStandardsEnvyYoung OnesYoung Students Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and elaborates on polemically in her 1978 book, Silences, in a chapter first delivered as a talk in 1967. As Olsen clearly saw it for women, my not being a writer was a material consequence of my being a woman - a wife, mother, housewife, and a certain kind of feminist teacher - attentive, one-on-one, face-to-face, nurturing, the kind who receives high ESCI evaluation scores from undergraduates and graduate students.” FirstsKindBookStoriesFacesMotherCertainSilenceSawsTeacherWifeStudentsMaterialsConsequenceFeministIronyScoreShort StoryGraduatesChaptersFace To FaceNurturingBeing A WomanHousewifeEvaluationOne On OneGraduate StudentsWife Mother Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
