" Learning still, Old Wife, learning still.” “But ain’t learned to quit casting a voluptuous eye on the young mens, I notice,” chirping her teeth. “When you gonna learn, you ole stick in the mud, that ‘good’ ain’t got nothing to do with it? They packed me off to seminary thinking helping and healing and nosing around was about being good. It was only that I was … available. "

― Toni Cade Bambara , The Salt Eaters