Defectors To North Quotes & Sayings

watched as the earth mother turned into a corporate dominatrix, chewing out the legal counsel — Susan Wiggs

He was desperately lonely. He had a hard time connecting with new people. If South Koreans were sympathetic toward him, he found them condescending. Even though he hated the North Korean regime, he found he'd get defensive when South Koreans criticized it. This was a common predicament for defectors. — Barbara Demick

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. — Betty Friedan

And yet, unlearn we must, for technology relentlessly transforms the playing field, changing not just the answers but the questions as well. — Louis Rosenfeld

It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies. — Hark-Joon Lee

I had always taken photos - always, always taken photos, made movies. — Robert Barry

I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, "I'm like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these people. They're going to be okay." — Jen Kirkman

Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can be expressed. Well, I don't know. I can't do it. It's this sort of thing that makes me belittle the whole business: what's the good of a 'talent' if you can't do it when you want to? What should we think of a woodcarver who couldn't woodcarver? or a pianist who couldn't play the piano? Bah, likewise grrr. — Philip Larkin

Happiness is not a future event. — Joe Fortenberry

I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors. — Kim Young-sam

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't think there's quite as much innovation. — Tom Selleck

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness. — Bell Hooks

North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who's escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live, what to do, even which clothes to put on in the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed to making choices; it can be utterly paralyzing for people who've had decisions made for them by the state their entire lives. — Barbara Demick

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world. — Kim Young-sam

When the body breaks down, it does not all go at once; it goes piece by piece. — Janine Di Giovanni

When God opens a door, you have to take His hand and walk through it. Even when you have doubts. — Dorothy Love