Women must get educated and strive for their own independence; they can't just go on asking the men for everything. The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

Is half stained with blood, and half with tears.

Who is this person staring at me so sternly? The martial bones I bring from a former existence regret the flesh that covers them. Once life is over, the body itself will be seen to have been a deception.