"Joined together with bones and sinews, having a plastering of skin and flesh, covered with hide, the body is not seen…"

"Friends, this body is so impermanent, fragile, unworthy of confidence, and feeble. It is so insubstantial, perishable…"

"Therefore, you should be revulsed by such a body. You should despair of it and should arouse your admiration for the …"

"Good people, this body is impermanent, without durability, without strength, without firmness, a thing that decays in…"

"Good people, a thing like this is irksome and hateful, and therefore you should seek the Buddha body. Why? Because th…"

"It was a foot in name only. The misshapen mass looked more like a hoof bisected by a crack."

"Strange to think it was an erotic thing. To us, the smell of rotting flesh would be unbearable. But back then men wro…"

"The bandages that women used for footbinding were about 10 feet long, so it was difficult for them to wash their feet…"

"There's not a single other woman in Liuyicun who could fit their feet into my shoes. When my generation dies, people …"

"Looking back on it, I am not sure what I was expecting. Such cruel and ugly words are used to describe bound feet. I …"