This quote shows Anna choosing to reject shame and actively be proud of her unconventional life. The reference to Mother Sugar implies that the two women wrestle with emotional responses such as shame or guilt in relation to their personal choices to live unconventional lives. They know that many of the ways in which they live their lives, such as being single mothers and having affairs with married men, are considered taboo by wider society. 9ĭespite Anna and Molly seemingly enjoying being free women, they acknowledge that states of being insecure and unrooted typically have negative connotations. But Anna had recently been learning to use these words in a different way, not as something to be apologised for but, but as flags or banners for an attitude that amounted to a different philosophy. That they were both "insecure" and "unrooted," words which dated from the era of Mother Sugar, they both freely acknowledged.
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