I'm much more comfortable in pants and shirts, running around. There was a typical construction about womanhood when I was growing up that I rejected.
Shirley Geok-lin LimI always wanted to be pretty as a girl, although I believed it was not possible.
Shirley Geok-lin LimNote, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.
Shirley Geok-lin LimIt's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This is the world of writing.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim