Shirley Geok-lin Lim Quotes About Home

• As a female in a home with a whole bunch of brothers and being very close to my father, without a mother and later having a hostile relationship with my stepmother, there were all kinds of Freudian issues rising from possessing a female body that I had to negotiate with no guidance, and I did this negotiation almost instinctually.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Madre, Hermano, Padre

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Hermano, Crecer, Padre

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• Caminaba todas las mañanas y me llevaba el iPod, papel y bolígrafo.Mientras caminaba, escribía un poema, y cuando llegaba a casa, a veces legible, a veces no, lo pasaba a máquina. Así que ahora tengo una nueva colección de poemas, aún por publicar. Se titula Walker's Alphabet y, entre otras cosas, trata sobre caminar. Mi poemario más reciente, de 2010, por cierto, se titulaba CAMINANDO hacia atrás.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Morning, Home, Ipods

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

• I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to reach further, to keep desiring more of a future not yet imagined and not yet written down.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Home, Childhood, Desire

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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