“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
“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
“For all he had acknowledged her as a being capable of desire, he hadn't seen her reality; that she was a woman, trapped within the narrow confines of a woman's life, and everything that could be wanted was all equally impossible” FeminismWomen EmpowermentWomen S Rights Book:She Who Became the Sun Source: She Who Became the Sun
“Knowing the cause of their suffering, the peasant cursed their barbarian emperor in his distant capital in the north. As with any two like things connected by a thread of qui, whereby the actions of one influence the other even at a distance, so an emperor's worthiness determines the fate of the land he rules.” LgbtWomen S RightsAsian PhilosophyLgbt RightsWomens Empowerment Book:She Who Became the Sun Source: She Who Became the Sun