The self is every person's true enemy.

- Ding Ling

But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

- Ding Ling

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

- Ding Ling

When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?

- Ding Ling

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

- Ding Ling

In truth, it is I who have defiled myself, for one is one s own fiercest enemy.

- Ding Ling

Live and die your own way, unnoticed.

- Ding Ling

I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.

- Ding Ling