Helena Rho > Quotes

“I went to Jeju Island to remember my mother. At her happiest. At her finest. Before everything fell apart. Because that is how I choose to remember my mother. To pay homage to the woman she had been, to the woman she could have been. To etch into my memory the one place she had experienced unadulterated joy.”
― Helena Rho, American Seoul

“the white patriarchal court system, which wrongly insists it is a justice system while punishing women and people of color.”
― Helena Rho, American Seoul

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Helena Rho, American Seoul

“I remain ambivalent about the fact that I have such fondness for a racist, misogynist writer like Hemingway. The epitome of toxic masculinity.”
― Helena Rho, American Seoul

“Sadly, I know more about the War of the Roses in medieval England and Henry VIII and his six wives than I do about Korean history, especially in the twentieth century. I have been colonized by the white gaze, white standards, white expectations.”
― Helena Rho, American Seoul