When Chien Chen describes her new works, she speaks at length about wanting to treat social ills, about prejudice toward foreign wives, and about the politicization of everything. "Taiwan's parents have so many hidden anxieties. After all, there are 600 missiles pointed at you and your children at any given moment." Like every mother, Chien Chen brings up these matters with anger and a maternal tenacity.
簡媜談起她的新作，絮絮細數教改亂象、外籍新娘歧視、泛政治化等問題，「台灣的父母親有太多隱憂，畢竟有六百多顆飛彈正隨時對著你和你的孩子，」像每一個媽媽，簡媜提起這些時事，既憤慨，卻又有一種屬於母者的強韌。