Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues Quotes

“Everything I have learned about love, I learned from my mother. For it is mothers who bend, twist, flex, and break most dramatically before our uninitiated eyes. Fathers bear, conceal, inflict, sometimes vanish, so the mythology of domestic union tells us. But mothers absorb, accept, give in, all to tutor daughters in the syntax, the grammar of yearning and love.”
― Marita Golden, Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex

“The current Pandora's box of revelations about sexual crimes committed within the walls of so many of America's families reveals the nuclear family to be cruelly, aptly named. Patriarchy, sexism, and the culture of capitalism have created a "family" that too often is no more than a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.”
― Marita Golden, Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex