Seeing many people around her bearing the scars of the fight for democracy and being imprisoned, "from the age of 19 I had the cares and solemnity of a person in middle age," wrote Chen Chu in her autobiography.
看到周遭不少人烙印著民主傷痕，淪入牢獄，「我從十九歲就有中年的負擔和沈重」，陳菊在她的著作《黑牢嫁》中說。