A woman cannot take the Wild Fire Collection approach and fiercely criticize the Taipei City government for its inability to resolve the street vendor problem, or raise calls for petrochemical companies to practice environmental protection. For a woman facing an exhausted husband or a self-satisfied German businessman, the most they can do, like Lung Ying-tai, is to say: "You don't have to ask about the rest.
女人，既不能像當年的《野火集》，恨恨地大罵市政府沒有能力解決攤販問題、或者搖旗吶喊石化工廠帶來生態汙染；女人，當她們面對那個疲憊不堪的丈夫，或者那個自信滿滿的德國商人，大部分只能像龍應台一樣，說：「其他你就不必問了。