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Elder Sister
Daughter of Mama and Baba, and Lily's younger sister by one year. Lily describes her as acting as though she's spoiled and feels entitled to love, when in truth she is neither. She makes a great show of resisting foot binding and dies of septic shock after only a few weeks of having her feet bound.
Third Sister Quotes in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Snow Flower and the Secret Fan quotes below are all either spoken by Third Sister or refer to Third Sister. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Daughter Days: Footbinding
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For us, the pain didn't lessen. How could it? But we learned the most important lesson for all women: that we must obey for our own good.
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"I would rather keep her on this earth unmarried than lose her forever."
"Then she would have no purpose and no value," Aunt reasoned. "Your mother love tells you this is no future."
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Third Sister Quotes in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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Daughter Days: Footbinding
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For us, the pain didn't lessen. How could it? But we learned the most important lesson for all women: that we must obey for our own good.
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"I would rather keep her on this earth unmarried than lose her forever."
"Then she would have no purpose and no value," Aunt reasoned. "Your mother love tells you this is no future."
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