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“If her love took on the contours of patriarchy and white supremacy, if her love was violent or brutal, so was the world in which she was trying to help me survive... still, I understand how abuse and violence can turn into grotesque proxies for love.”
― Julia Lee

“To be an Asian person in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of shame almost all of the time”
― Julia Lee

“We live in a culture where some of us are held to impossible standards...But all of us deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, even if we are not extraordinary. Even if we are not perfect.”
― Julia Lee

“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.”
― Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother