<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389989" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Woman Enough</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because my grandmother's hours<br>were apple cakes baking,<br>& dust motes gathering,<br>& linens yellowing<br>& seams and hems<br>inevitably unraveling<br>I almost never keep house<br>though really I like houses<br>& wish I had a clean one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because my mother's minutes<br>were sucked into the roar<br>of the vacuum cleaner,<br>because she waltzed with the washer-dryer<br>& tore her hair waiting for repairmen<br>I send out my laundry,<br>& live in a dusty house,<br>though really I like clean houses<br>as well as anyone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am woman enough<br>to love the kneading of bread<br>as much as the feel<br>of typewriter keys<br>under my fingers<br>springy, springy.<br>& the smell of clean laundry<br>& simmering soup<br>are almost as dear to me<br>as the smell of paper and ink.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wish there were not a choice;<br>I wish I could be two women.<br>I wish the days could be longer.<br>But they are short.<br>So I write while<br>the dust piles up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit at my typewriter<br>remembering my grandmother<br>& all my mothers,<br>& the minutes they lost<br>loving houses better than themselves<br>& the man I love cleans up the kitchen<br>grumbling only a little<br>because he knows<br>that after all these centuries<br>it is easier for him<br>than for me.</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=389989" data-title="Woman Enough de Erica Jong" data-description="Because my grandmother's hours were apple cakes baking, & dust motes gathering, & linens yellowing & seams and hems inevitably unraveling I almost never keep house though really I like houses & wish I had a clean one. Because my mother's minutes ..."></div> </div> </div>

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