A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, — Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

— Alice Walker, The Color Purple
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