"I just did not feel like there were any Asian women out there who I could identify with…I thought it was our role to be quiet and that people would look down on me if I ever spoke out."
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On feeling that she did not have a voice in her youth in “Interviews: Stacey Lee” in BookPage (Aug 2019)
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