Women
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Women by Alice Walker
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“Women” by celebrated author Alice Walker takes a close look at the sacrifices African American women, especially of her mother’s generation, took to make sure that their children had better educations and futures than they did. Walker said that she wrote this particular piece for her mother, who w...
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Women Annotated
They were women then
My mama’s generation
Husky of voice—stout of
Step
With fists as well as
Hands
How they battered down
Doors
And ironed
Starched white
Shirts
How they led
Armies
Headragged generals
Across mined
Fields
Booby-trapped
Ditches
To discover books
Desks
A place for us
How they knew what
we
Must know
Without knowing a page
Of it
Themselves.