"If a society represses women, then even women who take the Buddhist path will be repressed by patriarchal authority. In the same way, when a society has such a great number of outstanding women, a great number of outstanding bhiksuni will also appear. This reasoning explains why in the Chinese Buddhism seen in Japan and Korea, nuns do not have the status that they do in Taiwan."
「如果一個社會對女性是壓抑的，那女性即使走入佛門還是一樣會遭到父權的壓抑；相同的，社會上既然有這麼多傑出女性，佛門中也自然有傑出的比丘尼出現；同樣在漢傳佛教的日本與韓國，比丘尼的地位就不如台灣。」