The Island of Sea Women (201 POCHE)

When she’s in the sea, she’s in the womb of the world.

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She’d always felt healthiest when she dove too, always felt healed in the water. Whenever she had problems in her life, she went diving. Of course, it’s dangerous, but every day something pulls her to the sea. When her body isn’t underwater, her mind is. “I hear the ocean calling,”

Beyond all that, I’d loved Jun-bu. He wasn’t as replaceable as a broken diving tool. No, I could never become a wife or a little wife.

“Not many men can do without a wife, while all women can do without a husband.”

Pregnancy brings changes not only to a woman’s body but also to her mind.

Mi-ja and I traveled on swiftly moving, but distinctly different, currents.

“When a woman gets married, she has the best food for three days. That must last her a lifetime.

Those of us who ran our own households learned we could gather more wealth without husbands to drink or gamble it away. We