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Overview

The inspirational story of a woman's rise out of the foster-care system, told through the stories of the incredible women who each lifted her up in different ways.

Her story will inspire you. At first glance, Victoria Rowell—the graceful, breathtakingly beautiful, and incredibly accomplished star of television and film—appears to be someone who has never had to struggle at anything. You would be surprised: the truth is that given the circumstances of her inauspicious beginnings and the hurdles she has had to overcome, she probably shouldn't even be alive today. Indeed, she has not only thrived, but from the moment of her birth, the story of Vicki Lynn Collins—ward of the state and foster child until the age of emancipation—has been nothing short of miraculous.

After being born in Maine to an unmarried white mother whose lineage was Yankee blueblood and an unidentified black father, Baby Girl Collins began life as a hospital boarder infant. After sixteen days, she was placed with a Caucasian foster family—a highly discouraged practice under the state's child-welfare laws, which then prohibited the adoption of African-American or mixed-race children by white families. At this critical stage, Vicki Rowell (her biological mother's last name from a former marriage) encountered the first of what would be an astonishing array of remarkable women—each of whom presented herself for different purposes at every dramatic turn of Vicki's life, each sent to love, nurture, guide, teach, or challenge her on the road to becoming an astonishingly remarkable woman in her own right. She would go on to become a world-class ballerina and an actress whose credits include the Cosby Show and Diagnosis Murder, in addition to her long-time role on The Young and the Restless.

In The Women Who Raised Me, Victoria Rowell's survival through the labyrinth that is our heartbreakingly overburdened foster care system shows the positive possibilities of what can go right in the system by showing her gratitude to the families and institutions that fed, clothed, educated, and empowered her first eighteen years. In the process, her book serves to pay tribute to her personal champions: the mothers, grandmothers, aunts, mentors, teachers, fosterers, and sisters whose stories are woven through hers.

Editorial Reviews

Amy Alexander
The Women Who Raised Me is a "quilt," Rowell writes, "and each woman gave me a piece of herself to sew together, to make me whole." Likely due to the "can-do Mainers" who gave Rowell her start, the author's thorough exploration of her life within and without the system is an honest, persuasive testament to her strength, and to that system's potential.
— The Washington Post
Library Journal
The child of an upper-crust white mother and unknown black father, actress/dancer Rowell was raised in a series of foster homes, here recalled lovingly as a source of -inspiration. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780061246609
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 5/1/2008
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 449,636
  • Product dimensions: 5.30 (w) x 7.90 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Victoria Rowell
Victoria Rowell

At age eight, Victoria Rowell won a Ford Foundation grant to study ballet and later went on to train and dance professionally under the auspices of the American Ballet Theatre, Twyla Tharp Workshop, and the Juilliard School before becoming an actress. She is the founder of the Rowell Foster Children Positive Plan, which provides scholarships in the arts and education to foster youth, and serves as national spokesperson for the Annie E. Casey Foundation/Casey Family Services. Rowell is an award-winning actress and veteran of many acclaimed feature films and several television series, including eight seasons on Diagnosis Murder, and has starred for the past thirteen years as Drucilla Winters on CBS's #1 daytime drama The Young and the Restless.

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The Women Who Raised Me

A Memoir
By Victoria Rowell

William Morrow

Copyright © 2004 Victoria Rowell
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-06-124659-3

Chapter One

Bertha C. Taylor

What comes first, before conscious memory, before recorded images, and before the oral accounts that later helped me understand what happened during my first two and a half years of life, is a melody. It's the sound of a lullaby sung by a woman who loves me infinitely, in a full voice that is untrained but on-key, perhaps with a frill here and there that she would never dare use at choir practice or in church, but allows herself just for me. The melody is accompanied in my primal senses by the sensation of motion, as I am held to her bosom and rocked.

Fittingly, my life begins with a dance-a waltz!

Out of this music and movement, other impressions remain of my first foster mother, Bertha Taylor, who received me from the Holy Innocents Home, the orphanage connected to Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine. When I was three weeks old, Bertha took me to her home, fifteen miles away in the small town of Gray, Maine, with the absolute conviction that she would raise me to adulthood as her own. I know in my cells that this was her maternal plan, just as I know how generously and tenderly every day she kissed my forehead, the nape of my neck, and all my fingers and toes. I know that with her husband at herside and helping, too, she bathed me and changed my diapers for two and a half years, and that with her two best friends, Laura Sawyer and Retha Dunn, and their husbands, created a foundation of love and community that would live on in my self-esteem even when I couldn't name its origin. I know that Bertha was my mother who bundled me up and took me outside as winter approached to introduce me to my first falling snow, the same mother who encouraged me to take my first steps.

Here in Gray, Maine, population 2,100 or so, approximately 99.9 percent Caucasian in the early 1960s, in the Taylor home on Greenleaf Street-formerly an old redbrick railroad station that Bertha converted into a ten-room residence-joy was born in my life. This imprinted happiness was a lasting gift that my first foster mother bestowed upon me.

What I also know, however, is that it was in this same place where I first heard a grown woman crying. That sound of anguish after a prolonged but failed effort to adopt me left a confusing shadow over my childhood-a dark mystery rooted not only in the circumstances of my birth, but in the very history of Maine.

Perched in the shape of a large ear, as if listening to the secrets of the vast Atlantic Ocean, situated at the most northeastern corner of the American Northeast, the state of Maine is not only the soil from which I sprang, but it ultimately represents my only legal parent. I was literally a daughter of Maine, influenced to an important degree by commonly held, decent values. Mainers on the whole are hardworking, down-to-earth people, devoted to family and community, austere, practical, faithful. Lives depend on survival of the elements and demand a respect for nature. Seasons mattered. We farmed, trapped, shoveled, tapped trees. Some fished, others cut timber and hunted, raised crops, milked cows, slopped pigs, and cleaned coops. We farmers took care of one another and what we had because life depended on it. We had long ago learned to recognize the consequences of failing to do so. We learned how to make things by hand and how to fix them when they were broken.

Of course, when I was growing up, there were noticeable regional and class differences. Northern or coastal Mainers, like members of the Collins family of Castine or lineages from places like Kennebunkport, Camden, and Booth Bay Harbor, tended to be wealthier, more educated, more connected to our nation's founding families; the smaller rural or industrial towns of the south and interior-like Berwick, Gray, and West Lebanon-tended to be poorer and more working class, with lesser known but still long ago planted family names like Lord, Quimby, James, and Shapleigh of Lebanon, Maine. Ahead of their time, establishing early welfare in the United States, before and after the Civil War, these farmers bought and sold farms to aid the sick, the poor, and children, thus creating almsfarms (charity farms). Aside from other distinctions determined by social status, money, education level, and religious affiliation, differences were strong between the part-timers who summered in state and the year-round Mainers. Nonetheless, between most groups of people, a tradition of civility-if not actual tolerance-prevailed.

So you might conclude that the ills of racial discrimination would never have come to roost in a state known for its political independence and its historically significant antislavery role. In 1820, when Maine was granted statehood as the twenty-third state, it was in fact thanks to the terms of the Missouri Compromise-allowing Maine to separate from ownership by Massachusetts and to join the Union as a "free state" while Missouri was to be admitted as a "slave state," thus maintaining a numerical balance between states that forbade human bondage and those that permitted it. Abolitionist societies soon flourished in Maine, in an atmosphere that empowered Harriet Beecher Stowe, then a resident of Brunswick, to write Uncle Tom's Cabin-the antislavery rallying cry heard in the years leading up to the Civil War. In some regards, Maine led the way over the next century when it came to laws protecting the rights of its African American citizens. But unfortunately there were exceptions to this tradition-as evidenced by one of Maine's most shameful chapters, otherwise known as Malaga Island.

From the time that I was in my twenties and first heard about the tragic history of this obscure island, one among several inhabitable isles dotting Casco Bay near Phippsburg, I was haunted by it. Whether or not what happened on Malaga Island in 1912 has any direct connection to my story, I can't say, but it helps to expose some of the social and legal contradictions that Bertha Taylor had to battle on my behalf.

(Continues...)


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Table of Contents


Prologue: The Viewing     1
Grandmothers, Mothers, Aunts (1959-1968)
Bertha C. Taylor     17
Agatha Wooten Armstead     39
The Wooten Sisters & the Armstead Daughters     80
Mentors, Fosterers, Grande Dames (1968-1983)
Esther Brooks     107
Rosa Turner & Barbara Sterling ... & Linda Webb & Carol Jordan     144
Sylvia Pasik Silverman     177
Valentina Pereyaslavec & Paulina Ruvinska Dichter     195
Dorothy & Agatha     230
Sisters (1983-Present)
Millie Spencer & Irene Kearney     249
The Sisters Who Taught Me     279
Dolores Marsalis & LaTanya Richardson Jackson     306
Vicki Lynn Bevan Sawyer Collins Rowell     317
Gratitudes     325
Resources     327

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 10, 2007

    Claiming Family

    While some readers may take great pains to dissect Rowell's descriptions of her biological mother--and various foster mothers and mentors--I will avoid the unnecessary recounting of every detail of these remarkable women. Needless to say, the venerable and undaunted Black farm owner Agatha Armstead---Rowell's long term foster mother---receives considerable and much deserved attention in this book. Yet there may be some readers who may have difficulty understanding the author's obvious need to elevate and illuminate her biological schizophrenic White mother, Dorothy Rowell. The irony is that the author¿s real and literary attempt at exposing, explaining, and claiming her biological mother is remarkably African-American only a handful of us Black folks can claim any kind of racial purity due to our slave past--a past shaped as much by sexual exploitation and the occasional violation of social and legal codes proscribing interracial relations, as by the exploitation of labor. Both old and new Black American literature, like Black American life, is filled to the brim with accounts of unknown and unnamed ancestors, many of whom did not arrive from Africa most of whom were not anxious to claim their darker relatives. This memoir is a 20th and 21st century story as old as Black America itself. For persons who are visibly and culturally Black, yet who have a White parent, shaping an identity can be visceral and defiantly individual. Yet our long dead Black ancestors did exactly what Rowell does in this book--they claimed what they knew, and embraced the people they needed to embrace to give themselves a sense of history, belonging, and community. Without a full family history, the author can only tell us what she knows about her biological family tree and like the ancestors of old, it is a fragmented and painful account. Like many an orphaned slave child, the foster child in this book claimed family wherever she found it. Her search for family and a sense of belonging ripples through this book and is set to life through her crisp and conversational prose. The women who raised her are family by their actions and by Rowell's claiming them as such. Readers looking for an autobiography of titillating personal details will not find it here. Rowell delves deep enough into her childhood and young adult experiences. Yet she essentially keeps her focus on the array of women who have mothered and mentored her. That is, of course, the power of this text. All of her mothers/mentors come across as ordinary women called to the extraordinary and often painful task of foster parenting a child that they may be unable to keep. The beauty of the text is the realization that all of these women are women any one of us might meet anywhere. Rowell has long been an advocate and voice for children in foster care. She has tirelessly encouraged ordinary folks to become foster parents and mentors. She adds to that stellar legacy with this book. Her literary accomplishment, however, is that she pulls this off without excessive melodrama or moralizing. All at once you weep, and all at once you celebrate. You empathize, but do so without pity. I highly recommend this work and look forward to the next.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 1, 2008

    Great Author, Great Actress, Inspiring Woman

    I love books about strong women who have overcome difficult situations. This is a wonderful book. Victoria has turned her life inside out for all the world to see and hers is a truly amazing and inspiring story. It is beautifully written and, as a history buff, I enjoyed the background information about Maine. I'm glad she included the heartbreaking story of Malaga Island, which, before reading the book, I'd never known existed. This story should encourage everyone to strive to be the very best they can be, no matter how difficult their past. Victoria is a successful woman who has chosen to use her success and recognition to help others.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 25, 2007

    Engaging Storytelling

    This is one of the most engaging stories I have read in a very long time. The manner in which Victoria presents these very different women, and the role they each played in shaping the person she has become, is phenominal. Having met the author during a conference where she held a book signing, the genuine warmth and 'realness' of her personality is evident in every page and through the life-lessons she shares with her readers.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 8, 2007

    the best book ever!!!

    I love this book I could not put in down I could not wait to see what else she had to say I will be reading it again

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 3, 2007

    A reviewer, reader

    This stands out in an outstanding way. Victoria Rowell has given us an excellent piece of literature that will help all of humanity.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 4, 2007

    She is a true inspiration to all.

    Her life, she has made it her own. For all the women women in her life, they should all be so pround of such a remarkable woman she is today.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 20, 2007

    amazing story

    this book is heart-warming, inspiring, and amazing. Victoria Rowell has been dealt some hard times in her life but she still amazingly survived!! The women who raised her were truly her angels from God. After reading this book you will believe that dreams really do come true!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 2, 2011

    Outstanding

    What a wonderful book. I laughed,cried,and was amazed by everything vicky endured. How much she was loved by all. Please read this, you won't be sorry.

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  • Posted May 19, 2010

    What a fascinating life and such wonderful storytelling! Victoria experienced more in life by the time that she reached her early twenties than many of us will experience in a lifetime. She is a true inspiration to all and a truly remarkable woman!

    This should be required reading in classrooms as this young woman represents someone who didn't let her background and circumstances prevent her from attaining some of the highest achievements in life. The storytelling is so skillfully told and the details of her relationships with her mentors and friends, dance training, travel adventures and lessons in growing up makes this a page turner. I have recommended this book to several friends and relatives and they all agree with me that it was difficult putting this one down as we wanted to just keep reading more.

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  • Posted January 11, 2010

    Inspiring!

    Interesting, touching and uplifting life story. Proves that anyone can make a significant impact on the life of another, with determination and love. Amost every woman the author met turned out to be an amazing powerhouse -- almost too good to be true. A book not easy forgotten.

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  • Posted June 6, 2009

    An Exceptional Story.

    This book is a pager turner. You want to finish it to learn what happened in the life the character/author. You want to meet the author and be her friend.

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