"My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus."

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I look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I'm the authority and they have to meet a certain standard. It's like, oh, look at these young ones. They've got such a hard road in front of them. I don't envy them having life ahead of them.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim