Invisibility Is An Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman

"I have, for too long a period of time accepted the opinion of others (even though they were directly affecting my life) as if they were objective events totally out of my control. Because I separated such opinions from the persons who were making them, I accepted them the way I accepted natural disasters; and I endured them as inevitable."

-Mitsuye Yamada in “Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman”