Answers Quote by Mary Jo Putney

Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The fact that…

— Amanda Foreman

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

— Dean Acheson

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

— Ken Livingstone

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

— Karen Chance

Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

— Diana Vreeland

Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).

— George Herbert

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

— Maxine Hong Kingston

“Bound feet symbolize torture of women for men’s pleasure.”

— S.J. Friedman

“Shoes were invented by the Sith to keep our delicate toes in anguish and misery, I'm sure of it." -Tahiri Veila (Edge of Victory:…

— Greg Keyes

Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a…

— Amanda Foreman

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

— Bette Midler

Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it…

— Maxine Hong Kingston