Toni Morrison: ‘I Am Alarmed By the Willlingness of Women to Enslave Other Women.’

<p>What is unsettling about it is that the story is essentially the story of a household, a world, if you please, of women. Of women gathered to abuse another woman. There is, of course, a vague rather absent father and a nick-of-time prince with a foot fetish. But neither has much personality. The real fireworks don&rsquo;t concern the men, and do not take place among or between them. The surrogate &ldquo;mothers&rdquo; (god- and step-) contribute to Cinderella&rsquo;s grief and to her release and happiness.</p> <p><a href="https://zora.medium.com/toni-morrison-in-her-own-words-562b14e0effa"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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