Epilogue Reading Notes

- braiding hair.
- you look like your mother who looked like your grandmother
- be the best cook and housekeeper who ever lived
- writing is forbidden
- metaphors including cooking with writing
- writing is like braiding your hair
- diverse women in family are like different size and weight of braids
- mother is disappointed that you want to write as your living
- 999 women who went before you so you can stand here
- a thousand women urging you to speak through the blunt tip of your pencil
- women like you do speak
- the women in your family never lost touch
- sky will fall if you do not tell stories
- and this was your testament to the way that these women lived and died and lived again.