As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing la…

- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

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 husba…

- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight…

- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

The foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped.

- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

The things that I dislike passionately, I have come to realize, are also part of me.

- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

As I grew older - and even when I was younger - it had puzzled me why I continued and continue to be heterosexual.

- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

Working women went through a time when they believed that.

- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.

- Shirley Geok-Lin Lim