"I think of Toni Morrison and the women she lived among in Queens in the seventies. She was a single mother supporting two young children, but she'd send a check, a 'grant,' to another woman writer, say Toni Cade Bambara, whenever she made some extra money freelancing. And Toni Cade Bambara, or someone else, might show up at her house with groceries, unasked, to cook dinner." ---- from Having and Being Had by Eula Biss