Chapter One:

"I don't care if you can't do anything else. I don't care if
you lose your income, your home, your possessions. Fuck all of it, baby. Just
gather up your self-respect and walk right out. To be a prostitute is to be
nothing, a mere tool of man. Take no notice of your pimps, your bosses. We
will help you. We will give you all the help we can. We will
get you so together that your old life will seem like a bad dream."

Margaret Lawrence Brown had been speaking for fifteen minutes, and she paused
to sip from a glass of water handed to her on the makeshift podium. The...