She admits that personal tragedies and the pressures of politics have pushed her endurance to the limit, but "I just grind my teeth and stick it out." She feels that she learned this philosophy of life through working in the rice fields as a child.
她坦承，生命中的變故衝擊與從政的壓力，每每使她覺得體力耐力已經到了極限，「但牙齒一咬還是得挺過去」，她認為這是從小挑稻草訓練出來的人生哲學。