Alice Walker

I saw in Alice Walker's "In search of Our Mothers Gardens" that the first paragraph was a poet speaking to a prostitute and he was saying, "in the selfless abstractions their bodies became to the men who used them, they became more than "sexual objects" more even than mere women: they became saints. instead of being perceived as whole persons, their bodies became shrines: what was thought to be their minds became temples for worship. " This coincides with what someone said in class maybe the first week, that women were regarded as divine to be worshipped and not people with intellectual minds but rather, something to look at and to have proper etiquette and so on. I like that they tied in together with our thoughts.