For a woman who has spent her whole life following the three Confucian obediences (to father before marriage, to husband after marriage, and to son after husband's death), in her seventies she has finally realized the true value of taking responsibility for her own life. "She laughs as she says that she has probably become a typical American senior citizen.
尤其一輩子沒有懷疑過從父、從夫、從子「三從」的她，竟然在七十多歲後想通了「自己的生活自己負責，好壞都自己擔了」的真義，她笑說，大概她也變成道地的美國老人了。