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

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

The moment your baby is wrenched from your insides, love may not be what you feel. Love must be nurtured and tended to in the same way we haenyeo care for our fields under the sea.

deep-heart friend.

Jeju’s matrifocal culture,

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.”

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

know I couldn’t change and I couldn’t forgive, but I had to hold on to my anger and bitterness as a way of honoring those I’d lost.

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