“Doesn’t Mr Bao count?”
“Yes, but no. I don’t take it for granted that having a love aff air is virtually, morally right. After all these years of serving a man as a horse and a cow, I’ve earned this one, by chance and by luck, but not by nature. I still have to stay out of the sun. I still feel not right. I still feel guilty. But for what? Men are the sun, women the moon; men the day, women the night; men the sky, women the clouds; men nine, women six. Men and women should be equal. Men can’t have any offspring without women. But why can’t men appreciate women for this particularity and be grateful for that?”