And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay