It was every haenyeo’s duty to nurture our wet fields by cleaning and caring for them for future seasons and generations.

It is said that after experiencing the vast unknowable sea, a daughter comes to know her mother and understand her for the first time.

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.

“It’s not a matriarchy. Rather, it’s a society focused on women.”

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.”

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

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

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

With that, we pulled our face masks from our foreheads, rubbed mugwort on the glass,