Coming of age. My pure and virtuous Congregationalist turned Catholic mother rarely shared her own words of wisdom with me regarding relationships with the male species. She was busy being a superwoman and it was the 1980’s, still very much a man’s world. I thought my mom and I were so different, and I wouldn’t have listened to her advice on the subject anyway. But she shared a few things that always stuck with me. Power of the Pussy was one, short and sweet.