“But the truth was I was very lonely and, with my mother’s knowledge, started having sex at 13. I guess it was a relief for my mother as it meant I was less demanding. And she felt that being sexually active was empowering for me because it meant I was in control of my body.”
“Now I simply cannot understand how she could have been so permissive. I barely want my son to leave the house on a play-date, let alone start sleeping around while barely out of junior school.”
“A good mother is attentive, sets boundaries and makes the world safe for her child. But my mother did none of those things.”—Rebecca Walker, Alice Walker’s daughter.
So tell me why we should get guidance from people like Alice Walker?
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I never knew Alice Walker had a daughter. Thanks for posting. I searched the web and found an article about how Alice treated her daughter. Her daughter Rebecca writes:
“I was 16 when I found a now-famous poem she wrote comparing me to various calamities that struck and impeded the lives of other women writers. Virginia Woolf was mentally ill and the Brontes died prematurely. My mother had me - a ‘delightful distraction’, but a calamity nevertheless. I found that a huge shock and very upsetting.”
Great info on Rebecca Walker; thanks for posting.