Once I was tempted to throw this whole book in the garbage, and I declined to publish it. But on pure chance eight years later--just a few months ago--I saw a report in the paper about a woman working for a credit cooperative who was fired because she had married and gotten pregnant. I was shocked. How could Taiwan still be like this?
我曾經想把這整本書丟到垃圾桶裡，不出版了；但八年後，大概在幾個月前吧，在一次偶然的機會，我看到報紙上一家信用合作社的女職員因結婚懷孕而被辭退，我嚇了一跳，怎麼台灣社會還是老樣子，有點時光倒流的感覺。