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When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers people to be soldiers.
Kim Hyesoon
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Kim Hyesoon
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
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Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.
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Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us.
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If someone asks, Is anyone alive? Break, your, head, open, and, show, your, ten, ta, cle.
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Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is outside of the poetry world, namely the language that is not the language of poetry, cannot go into the poetry world.
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Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.
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