When We Chinese Girls Listened To The

I Learned To Make My Mind Large, As The Universe Is Large, So That There Is Room For Paradoxes. Petals Are Bone Marrow; Pearls Come From Oysters. The Dragon Lives In The Sky, Ocean, Marshes, And Mountains; And The Mountains Are Also Its Cranium. Its Voice Thunders And Jingles Like Copper Pans. It Breathes Fire And Water; And Sometimes The Dragon Is One, Sometimes Many.

When We Chinese Girls Listened To The Adults Talk-story, We Learned That We Failed If We Grew Up To Be But Wives Or Slaves. We Could Be Heroines, Swordswomen. Even If She Had To Rage Across All China, A Swordswoman Got Even With Anybody Who Hurt Her Family. Perhaps Women Were Once So Dangerous That They Had To Have Their Feet Bound.

When You Raise Girls, You're Raising Children For Strangers.

Gods You Avoid Won't Hurt You.

The Sweat Of Hard Work Is Not To Be Displayed. It Is Much More Graceful To Appear Favored By The Gods.