p.220
Women there are valued solely for their utility:
as reproductive tools, they are the most precious items of trade in
the villager's lives.

p.222
The only day a woman of Shouting Hill can hold her head high
is the day she gives birth to a son.

p.226
I said to Mengxing that,
out of the hundreds of Chinese women I had spoken to over nearly ten
years of broadcasting and journalism, the women of Shouting Hill were
the only ones to tell me they were happy.

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