African American women writers have time and again highlighted the necessity for women to re-organize their lives in order to develop new attitudes as well as new systems. The culture of sharing and nurturing among the women evident in the novels of Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, and many other women writers reflect the need to be together in days of isolation and fracture of the family as happened right from the days of plantation slavery when the men were not available for protection and nurturing. Both Naylor and Walker have insisted on the possibility of black women's empowerment through a community of sisters. The quest for self-identity and self-empowerment is made possible when Naylor and Walker's women are able to free themselves from all forms of limitations – physical, material, emotional and social