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This quote sums up Sunja’s grief and guilt over Noa’s death, as well as the mindsets that help reinforce women’s burdens throughout the book. When Yangjin is bedridden, she and Kyunghee love to watch a television program called Other Lands, in which Japanese expatriates from around the world are interviewed. One day in an episode of Other Lands, an ethnically Japanese lady in South America repeats the proverb, heard elsewhere in Pachinko, “A woman’s lot is to suffer.” Yangjin and Kyunghee echo the sentiment, but Sunja is disgusted by this attitude. She suffered all her life to…