She describes Taiwan in the 1980s as a gas oven with the pressure building inside, and her appraising eye and sharp pen as a match that unintentionally set off an explosion in the island's stifled society, which had "grievances but no place to seek justice, pain but nowhere to call out."
她指出，一九八○年代的台灣，是個「悶」著的瓦斯箱，而她的冷眼與利筆，則是一支無心的火柴，引爆了那個「有冤無處申、痛苦無處喊」、悶壞了的社會。