“At some point, though the girl couldn't remember exactly when, she had become the only girl in the village...If a family had a son and a daughter and two bites of food, who would waste one on a daughter?” PovertyFeminismInequalityWomens Rights Book:She Who Became the Sun Source: She Who Became the Sun
“However, having grown up on a peasant's monotonous diet, and with only a half-formed suspicion that better things might exist, her imagination was limited to the dimension of quantity.” PovertyInequalityWomen S Rights Book:She Who Became the Sun Source: She Who Became the Sun
“There was nothing in her imagination to replace the formless, unchanging days of starvation. She clung to life because it seemed to have value, even if only to her.” HungerInequalityWomens Empowerment Book:She Who Became the Sun Source: She Who Became the Sun
“Children had taken pleasure in whispering to one another. That in other, worse-off villages, neighbors would swap their youngest children to eat... But now, seeing her father avoiding her gaze, the girl realized it wasn't just a story...In that one terrible moment, she knew what her fate of nothing meant.” InequalityWomen S RightsStarvation Book:She Who Became the Sun Source: She Who Became the Sun