[jalisco555]

Another prominent leftist who loves The People in the abstract but is horrid to the individuals in her life. The daughter's rejection of feminism is also very interesting. But a very sad story.

[Fichori]

A conservative mother and father can do, what a whole liberal village cannot.

[Marysecretary]

I always say they love the masses. It’s people they hate.

[donna]

and told her that in any case their relationship had been “inconsequential” for years.

This seems like a special story because the mother is a Feminazi; however, millions of latch-key-children are getting the very same message as they come home to empty houses after school.

[ohioman]

I feel bad for the daughter. Though she is a liberal, even she is far too the right of her nutcase mother - Alice Walker.

Stalin would have loved Alice Walker - both way to the left and both treated their children like dirt. Stalin was rare among history’s evil dictators as most at least treated their children as if they loved them.

[Red Boots]

I asked whether she thought it was a little strange that I wrote about my struggle in an attempt to get her to take care of me, but here we were, talking about how I should be taking care of her.

Narcissism at it's finest. The daughter was lucky...often narcissists fly into a murderous rage when they are outed.

[kcvl]

Walker resumed her writing career when she joined Ms. magazine as an editor before moving to northern California in the late 1970s.

Walker discussed her love affair with singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman in a December 2006 interview with The Guardian, explaining why they did not go public with their relationship, saying "[the relationship] was delicious and lovely and wonderful and I totally enjoyed it and I was completely in love with her but it was not anybody's business but ours."

Volunteering in the voter registration drives of the 1960s in Georgia, Walker went to work after college in the Welfare Department in New York City. Marrying in 1967 she divorced in 1976

[kcvl]

Poem Expect Nothing

Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise,
become a stranger
To need of pity
Or, if compasssion be freely
Given out
Take only enough
Stop short of urge to plead
Then purge away the need.

Wish for nothing larger
Than your own small heart
OR greater than a star;
Tame wild disappointment
With caress unmoved and cold
Make of it a parka
For your soul.

Discover the reason why
So tiny human midget
Exists at all
So sacred unwise
But expect nothing. Live frugally
On Surprise.

[kcvl]

[keats5]

Wow, this article really struck a chord with me. My mother was also a feminist. She hoped I would chose a career over children, and was shocked when I decided to give up a well established career to raise my three kids.

I was also surprised how much I fell in love with my kids, and simply couldn’t get excited about a career after they came alone. I felt like I had been lied to all my life, and had been groomed to fit a mold I didn’t want.

Having said that, the similarities end there. My mom really loved me, took good care of me and we had a great relationship while she was alive. She eventually came to the point where she supported my decision. My kids turned out great, and she respected that.

[dragonblustar]

A good quote.

Amoral modern liberals have no clue how to meet the demands of love. How can a person with a deep-rooted history of self-indulgence, who lives without restraint or accountability, possibly know what is the right thing to do, much less have the courage and character to do the right thing?- Janice Shaw Crouse

[fightinJAG]

I admire this daughter for at least sticking to her own journey and realizing her mother’s ideology was poison.

It’s amazing how many blacks seem to WANT to pass down hatred and victimhood. I was reading an article the other day about some older black ladies who were dismayed that their children “knew and cared nothing about” the bad old days at the back of the bus, etc.

I’m all for knowing and being realistic about our history. But many of us, black or white, had parents who had some “bad old days,” whether it was the Great Depression, segregation, ethnic discrimination, the Holocaust and so on.

Telling our kids about these historical incidents is one thing. Expecting them to live as though THEY personally experienced them and had them form their minds and attitudes is just wrong.

And selfish.

[krb]

It was me having to psycho-emotionally tiptoe around her,

Sounds like Alice was Borderline Personality Disorder.

[TASMANIANRED]

Just another casualty of liberalism in general and feminism in specific.

[shrinkermd]

Classic, good post.

[shrinkermd]

Classic, good post.