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“She had indeed seen death and she was not afraid of it. What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“This was a time when the government had implemented birth control policies called “family planningâ€� to keep population growth under control. Abortion due to medical problems had been legal for ten years at that point, and checking the sex of the fetus and aborting females was common practice, as if “daughterâ€� was a medical problem.”
― Cho Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

“But I wasn’t crying because I was sad. I guess I was crying because we had nowhere else to go, no choice but to go on living in this world. Crying because we had no other world to choose, and crying at everything before us, everything around us.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“Being beautiful, was that for men?'
'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men