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I’m so lucky to be me, because I get to hang around with myself. It had nothing to do with ego and everything to do with a lifelong awareness that I’ve always enjoyed my own company.
“What do you want from us? The dumb girls are too dumb, the smart girls are too smart, and the average girls are too unexceptional?”
― Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
― Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
“See this here? This is Seoul. It’s just a dot. A dot. We all of us are living in this tiny, cramped dot. You may not get to see all of it, but I want you to know: it’s a wide world out there.”
― Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
― Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
“Jiyoung grew up being told to be cautious, to dress conservatively, to be “ladylike.” That it’s your job to avoid dangerous places, times of day and people. It’s your fault for not noticing and not avoiding.”
― Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
― Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
“I see at least one thing a day that makes me wonder if the straight people are all right.”
― Felix Ever After
― Felix Ever After
“In debating “how to institutionalize racism in the Third Reich,” wrote the Yale legal historian James Q. Whitman, “they began by asking how the Americans did it.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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