Gail Godwin Quote

Her profession was words and she believed in them deeply. The articulation, interpretation, appreciation, and preservation of good words. She believed in their power. If you truly named something, you had that degree of control over it. Words could incite, soothe, destroy, exorcise, redeem.


The Odd Woman (1974)


Her profession was words and she believed in them deeply. The articulation, interpretation, appreciation, and preservation of good words. She...

Her profession was words and she believed in them deeply. The articulation, interpretation, appreciation, and preservation of good words. She...

Her profession was words and she believed in them deeply. The articulation, interpretation, appreciation, and preservation of good words. She...

Her profession was words and she believed in them deeply. The articulation, interpretation, appreciation, and preservation of good words. She...