The Ladies

The Ladies. Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. 1974. Photograph by Jill Krementz. No words. What they have given us: stories no one else wrote before they wrote them and then, having done that, they wrote some more. What one never forgets, either: their physical beauty during that time and this, something for the visual taking by their admirers while they kept themselves, the better to describe various emotional worlds, all real, all imagined, all true.