When I was younger, yes, there was a part of me - and I wrote about that bit in Among the White Moon Faces - that wanted to be a boy. I wanted to be accepted by my brothers and to be their peers.
Shirley Geok-lin LimAt a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.
Shirley Geok-lin LimThe consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and incitement of specular curiosity and fascination.
Shirley Geok-lin Lim