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The Night Ends with Fire

Book by K.X. Song · 6 quotes · Women, Oppression Of Women, Meilin

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“My hunger roused me. In the depths of the sea, I drew upon my greed, my insatiable ambition. I cried out to my shadow self, my truest self, and reached for her through her iron imprisonment. I understood now why I was called a perversion. It was unnatural for a woman to have this kind of ambition, and yet I existed. My existence was my birthright, and it would be my justification.”

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“Because it was depravity, for a woman to desire more than her lot in life. To aspire to more than safety, protection. To aspire to power.”

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“She swallowed hard. 'They would never let a woman hold on to power.”

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“This was going to be me. I would flee Father only to fall under another master. And even if I were to bear him a healthy son and earn my status in this household, even if Master Zhu were to pass away, that son would one day grow up to be a man, and then he too would command me.”

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“I needed to prove that I, as a woman, could be better than the rest of them. That I too could belong. That I too could be free.”

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“I understood now why I was called a perversion. It was unnatural for a woman to have this kind of ambition, and yet I existed. My existence was my birthright, and it would be my justification.”

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