“(While interviewing The University Student:) 'Good Chinese women are conditioned to behave in a soft, meek manner, and they bring this behaviour to bed. As a result, their husbands say that they have no sex appeal, and the women submit… — Xinran Copy Share Image
“(While interviewing at the Hunan women's prison:) 'I have lived with several men, and let them amuse themselves with me. Because of that, I have been sent to two labour reeducation camps and been sentenced to prison twice. (...) When people curse me for having no shame, I don't get angry. All the Chinese care about is "face", but they… — Xinran Copy Share
“(As a "grandchild of a capitalist household":) At school, I was forbidden to take singing and dancing lessons with the other girls because I was not to "pollute" the arena of the revolution. Even though I was short-sighted, I was not allowed to sit in the front row in class because the best places were reserved for the children born… — Xinran Copy Share
“(While interviewing The University Student:) 'Oh, poor Xinran. You haven't even got the various categories of women straight. How can you possibly hope to understand men? Let me tell you. When men have been drinking, they come out with a set of definitions for women. Lovers are "swordfish", tasty but with sharp bones. "Personal secretaries" are "carp", the longer you… — Xinran Copy Share
Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like… — Xinran Copy Share Image
The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through. — Xinran Copy Share Image
The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have. — Xinran Copy Share Image
“Just what are women, exactly? Should men be classed in the same species as women? Why are they so different? Books and films may… — Xinran Copy Share Image
“(While interviewing The University Student:) 'Good Chinese women are conditioned to behave in a soft, meek manner, and they bring this behaviour to bed.… — Xinran Copy Share Image
“I received no praise for the rescue of this girl, only criticism for "moving the troops about and stirring up the people" and wasting… — Xinran Copy Share Image
No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women… — Xinran Copy Share Image
“When you walk into your memories, you are opening a door to the past; the road within has many branches, and the route is… — Xinran Copy Share Image
