"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names."
Alice Walker (b. 1944), U.S. author, critic. repr. In In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens (1983). "A Letter to the Editor of Ms.," Ms. (New York, Aug. 1974). |
"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."
Alice Walker (b. 1944), U.S. author, critic. repr. In In Search of our Mothers' Gardens (1983). "A Writer Because of, Not in Spite of, Her Children," Ms. (New York, Jan. 1976). |
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