People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering … - Joy Kogawa

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My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.

Joy Kogawa

People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

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Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

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