Commenting on the recent popularity in Taiwan of the Japanese period soap opera Ah Hsin, which is also based on a traditional Asian cultural view of marriage (it extols the traditional spirit of the wife and mother enduring through hardship), Liao made a plea: Can we please no longer only have this model of a mother, so that modern mothers can still explore the joys of womanhood, and not live so bitterly?
有趣的是，或許同屬古老東方文化，風靡台灣的日本連續劇「阿信」，推崇的也是傳統的母親、妻子面對艱苦時那種「任重而道遠」的精神，使廖玉蕙忍不住呼籲，是不是可以不要再做這樣的模範母親，讓現代母親開發女性的歡愉，不再愁苦。