There is nothing shameful about making an honest living.

Feng thought that her mother's education would give her confidence to speak up for what is right, but no amount of learning could unshackle her from society's attitude towards women, and she chose to remain an apathetic bystander.

A woman's life is not her own.

They believed that when a baby died at a very young age, the parents smacked its bottom to leave a bruise, so that if the child was reborn, it could be recognised by the markings on its body.

She had learnt to put pride aside early in life to secure a roof over her head.

Men could get anything they wanted from the women who sought refuge with them. Why would they be obliged to marry their women?

After all the education I have had, I am reduced to the lowliest place in the house of my in-laws?

People don't see it that way. It's always the woman who is blamed for not trying hard enough to please her man.

If you think there is some place else where the status of women in society is much improved, you will be sorely disappointed.