'The government pays me a salary and has given us this flat. What more could I want? Do you know how many counterrevolutionaries they've had to execute in order to achieve the stable society we enjoy today? Do you really imagine that you and your little band of classmates are going to be able to turn this country upside down?'
'I don't understand. The Party drove your father to suicide and locked up your husband. Why do you feel you have to defend it? If the Communists hadn't taken over in 1949, you'd be a rich woman now, living in a big house.'
'Without the Communist Party there would be no New China. Without the leadership of Deng Xiaoping and Hu Yaobang, our family wouldn't be having the life we enjoy today.' She stepped back into the kitchen, wiping her wet hands on her trousers.
Ma Jian - Beijing Coma (p 108-109)
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