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Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Working women went through a time when they believed that.”

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim is a Singaporean-born writer known for her profound insights into multiculturalism and her rich literary works. Her writings often focus on themes of race, gender, and identity, which have resonated with readers worldwide. more

“For a while they wore suits or pants suits, and pants suits are kind of a women's appropriation of male costume, work costume. For me, it wasn't Western feminism or the Western workspace. It was my growing up in a house with a bunch of boys, so that male costuming just became my mode of appropriation way before, you know, Betty Friedan came along.”

Knows Way Kind House Boys Growing Up Growing Feminism Western Males Bunch Suits Pants Costumes Appropriation Workspace

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“I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her.”

Men Complaining Muse Neglected

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“There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.”

Written Couple Female Muse Masculine

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“I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.”

Figures Female Not Sure Muse

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“When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body.”

People Mean Body Literal Physical Body

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“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 husband and son to bring the issue down to a more concrete level, the body is a different manifestation physically.”

Different Body Levels Talking Issues Son Husband Demand Female Males Manifestation Empowering Concrete Invasion Female Body

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“The body in defense against male appropriation expresses itself through work in writing, and the work in writing produces the book. So it's a different form of creation and generation that may be viewed as creation without male contribution as a component or challenge.”

Writing May Book Different Body Form Challenges Generations Creation Produce Males Defense Contribution Components Appropriation

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“It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This is the world of writing.”

Ifs Knows World Writing Son Husband Setting Settings Muse

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“I learned how to cook and do a lot of marital things.”

Cooks

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“From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is always female, and the book comes from a separate gender dimension than the concrete male world that, as you pointed out, has been surrounding me since I was an infant.”

World Writing Has Beens Book Female Males Gender Hopefully Dimensions Concrete Muse Infant

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