Woman of steel Chuo Chen's old classmates from Taipei Women's Normal College were upset when they saw the one-time beauty wearing plastic boots and a bamboo hat as she toiled away with laborers. "Chen Ming, is life really that bad?" they asked. But her dearest friend later sent her a note: "If you delight in what you do, you won't tire doing it.
鐵打女強人卓陳明在女師專的同學看到昔日的嬌嬌女，套著膠鞋、戴著斗笠，跟著工人披荊斬棘，忍不住心疼的罵她：「陳明，妳是不是不想活了！」