
"I want to ride the strong winds, crush the angry waves, slay the killer whales in the Eastern sea, chase away the Wu army, reclaim the land, remove the yoke of slavery. I will not bend my back to be a slave."
—Lady Triệu
Lady Triệu was a warrior who lived in the 3rd century and who managed, for a time, to resist the Chinese state of Eastern Wu during its occupation of Vietnam.