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Mary H.K. Choi Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“Dudes: If you consider yourself a feminist and an ally and if your heart goes out to all the women who have been abused in the workplace but don’t know what to do, be a pal and tell three women you work closely with how much you make.”
— Mary H.K. Choi
Tagged: dudes, Feminism In Practice, feminism, Work & Career, Inequality
“Every mom is the most annoying human in the universe, but most of them, besides the super-abusive genuinely bad ones, are in your corner.”
— Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact
Tagged: Moms
“Sometimes talking to you is like accidentally clicking on a pop-up with autoplay video.”
— Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact
Tagged: Talking To People
“If there was an apocalypse—zombies, the sun explodes, whatever—fiction writing as a job would be the thousandth priority behind SoulCycle instructors.”
— Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact
Tagged: Writing, Fiction Writing, Soulcycle, Apocalypse
“Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.”
— Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact
Tagged: Love, vulnerability in love
“Whoa. i have been trying to write an essay. like one of those ones i used to write all the time. ALL THE TIME. And my muscle memory is gone. I am rereading some old ones and i could swear someone else did them. IS THIS WHAT HAPPENS.”
— Mary H.K. Choi
Tagged: Writing, writing truth, Writing Humor
“I admire your snack choices across the board. However, if you’re doing salt and vinegar—which is an excellent way to go,” I begin. “Are you completely satisfied to go sour-sour with the cola bottles? Just putting it out there that we have regular bottles, twin cherries . . . We also carry gummy frogs if you want that mallowy toothsomeness with a hit of surreptitious peach—or, and I know this is wild, but hear me out. . . .” I hold my hands up. “Would you be open to going sour cola but pairing it with Zapp’s Voodoo for the sweetness even though I can’t tell if the chips are somehow racist. . . .”
— Mary H.K. Choi, Mary H. K. Choi is back with another lovely, social-media tinged YA romance: Exclusive preview
Tagged: snacks, candy, pairings
“A character that scares you is worth exploring. Yet if you breathe life into a character and it comes to you too easily—say you’re writing from the viewpoint of a black man in America and you’re not one? Think hard about where your inspiration is coming from. Are you writing stereotypes? Tropes? Are you fetishizing the otherness? Whose ideas are you spreading? Really consider how you transmit certain optics over others. Think about how much power that is.”
— Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact
Tagged: Writing, stereotypes
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