Perhaps the journalist Hsu Chia-shih expressed it best 30 years ago when writing about the reaction to The New Feminism: "Lu's voice is a clarion call. She is a moderate reformer asking for a slumbering society to wake up. But the thing is, you can't blow a trumpet in the middle of the night and expect everybody to come out and thank you for it."
或許新聞學者徐佳士在三十年前對她倡導新女性主義引發的迴響之評斷到現在依然貼切：「這是一個溫和改革者向一個沈睡中的社會吹奏的一陣號音。