# How my mother's fanatical views tore us apart

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**Created:** [September 25, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-my-mothers-fanatical-views-tore-us-apart/42052 "2010-09-25T14:48:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jedi\_Nights](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/jedi_nights/32/346_2.png) [@Jedi\_Nights](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Jedi_Nights)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-my-mothers-fanatical-views-tore-us-apart/42052/1 "2010-09-25T14:48:12Z")

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She’s revered as a trail-blazing feminist and author Alice Walker touched the lives of a generation of women. A champion of women’s rights, she has always argued that motherhood is a form of servitude. But one woman didn’t buy in to Alice’s beliefs - her daughter, Rebecca, 38.  
Here the writer describes what it was like to grow up as the daughter of a cultural icon, and why she feels so blessed to be the sort of woman 64-year-old Alice despises - a mother.

**[How my mother’s fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author | Mail Online](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1021293/How-mothers-fanatical-feminist-views-tore-apart-daughter-The-Color-Purple-author.html#ixzz10YHgrzkP)**

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**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/how-my-mothers-fanatical-views-tore-us-apart/42052/2 "2010-09-25T19:19:56Z")

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Insightful, thanks for posting 🙂