<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389909" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nursing You</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the first night<br>of the full moon,<br>the primeval sack of ocean<br>broke,<br>& I gave birth to you<br>little woman,<br>little carrot top,<br>little turned-up nose,<br>pushing you out of myself<br>as my mother<br>pushed<br>me out of herself,<br>as her mother did,<br>& her mother's mother before her,<br>all of us born<br>of woman.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am the second daughter<br>of a second daughter<br>of a second daughter,<br>but you shall be the first.<br>You shall see the phrase<br>'second sex'<br>only in puzzlement,<br>wondering how anyone,<br>except a madman,<br>could call you 'second'<br>when you are so splendidly<br>first,<br>conferring even on your mother<br>firstness, vastness, fullness<br>as the moon at its fullest<br>lights up the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the moon is full again<br>& you are four weeks old.<br>Little lion, lioness,<br>yowling for my breasts,<br>rowling at the moon,<br>how I love your lustiness,<br>your red face demanding,<br>your hungry mouth howling,<br>your screams, your cries<br>which all spell life<br>in large letters<br>the color of blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are born a woman<br>for the sheer glory of it,<br>little redhead, beautiful screamer.<br>You are no second sex,<br>but the first of the first;<br>& when the moon's phases<br>fill out the cycle<br>of your life,<br>you will crow<br>for the joy<br>of being a woman,<br>telling the pallid moon<br>to go drown herself<br>in the blue ocean,<br>& glorying, glorying, glorying<br>in the rosy wonder<br>of your sunshining wondrous<br>self.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erica+Jong">Erica Jong</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389909" data-title="Nursing You de Erica Jong" data-description="On the first night of the full moon, the primeval sack of ocean broke, & I gave birth to you little woman, little carrot top, little turned-up nose, pushing you out of myself as my mother pushed me out of herself, as her mother did, & her mother's..."></div> </div> </div>

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