Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.

What you hope for, you also fear.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

Like I said...fine with me.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.