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“All I knew was that footbinding would make me more marriageable and therefore bring me closer to the greatest love and greatest joy in a woman’s life-a son.”

“I was a third child, a second worthless girl, too little to waste time on. She looked at me the way all mothers look at their daughters-as a temporary visitor who was another mouth to feed and a body to dress until I went to my husband‘s home. I yearned for her to look at me and talk to me the way she did with Elder Brother.

I love this book but it’s so very sad