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“A monument will never change how she feels. It’s unfair that victims should have to forgive those who raped, tortured, and killed, or burned villages to the ground. On an Island of World Peace, shouldn’t those who inflicted terrible harm on others be forced to confess and atone, and not make widows and mothers pay for stone monuments?” (The Island of Sea Women Quotes)
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“Confucius didn’t care much for women: When a girl, obey your father; when a wife, obey your husband; when a widow, obey your son.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“Every mother must leave her children to work, and every mother suffers, but we do it.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“Every woman who enters the sea carries a coffin on her back,” she warned the gathering. “In this world, in the undersea world, we tow the burdens of a hard life. We are crossing between life and death every day.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“Fall down eight times, stand up nine. For me, this saying is less about the dead paving the way for future generations than it is for the women of Jeju. We suffer and suffer and suffer, but we also keep getting up. We keep living. You would not be here if you weren’t brave. Now you need to be braver still.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“For a tree that has many branches, even a small breeze will shake some loose.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“Her house is the nest where she hides the joy, laughter, sorrows, and regrets of her life.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“How do we fall in love? How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us. We come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son. We tie ourselves together through moment. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else ever will.” (The Island of Sea Women Quotes)
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“I’ve had to think about the dark shadow side of friendship. This is the person who knows and loves you best, which means she knows all the ways to hurt and betray you.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“It is our duty to be keepers and managers of the sea. If we protect our wet fields, they will continue to provide for us.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“Parents exist in children,” Grandmother said to bolster my confidence. “Your mother will always exist in you. She will give you strength wherever you go.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“The sea is better than a mother. You can love your mother, and she still might leave you. You can love or hate the sea, but it will always be there. Forever. The sea has been the center of her life. It has nurtured her and stolen from her, but it has never left.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“They did this to me. They did that to me. A woman who thinks that way will never overcome her anger. You are not being punished for your anger. You’re being punished by your anger.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“To understand everything is to forgive.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“You aren’t aware your clothes are getting wet in the rain.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“You have been a good mother to your children, but now you must be an even better and stronger mother. Children are hope and joy. On land, you will be a mother. In the sea, you can be a grieving widow. Your tears will be added to the oceans of salty tears that wash in great waves across our planet. This I know. If you try to live, you can live on well.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“You may not know this, but the cold-water stress that the haenyeo endure is greater than for any other human group in the world.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
“Your mother will always exist in you. She will give you strength wherever you go.”
Lisa See
The Island of Sea Women
