“Does she know poetry and song? Does she understand music,
chess, calligraphy, and painting? Does she know how to be a good wife and mother and manage a household?”
Su Yao: “My beauty is enough ……”
Years later, the crushed Kyoto noblewoman wondered, “Didn’t you say that beauty is enough? Why do you still use your brain?”
Su Yao: “Don’t you know that the more beautiful a woman is, the less credible her words are?”