I often have conflicting thoughts and emotions about maternal feelings, both because my mother herself harbored many of society's male-chauvinist attitudes and also because my acquaintance with two women poets of my mother's generation--Chen Hsiou-hsi (who is already deceased) and Tu Pan Fang-ko--gave me glimpses of great sacrifice and depth of maternal feeling.
我常因我的母親重男輕女，我也常因接觸詩壇母親輩的女詩人陳秀喜（已過世）及杜潘芳格，看到她們母者的厚度與犧牲，會產生對母性的衝突。