In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.
Shirley Geok-lin LimEven after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on the priority list.
Shirley Geok-lin LimFor a while they wore suits or pants suits, and pants suits are kind of a women's appropriation of male costume, work costume. For me, it wasn't Western feminism or the Western workspace. It was my growing up in a house with a bunch of boys, so that male costuming just became my mode of appropriation way before, you know, Betty Friedan came along.
Shirley Geok-lin LimAs 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