If God had made a woman before he made a man, that might've been the end of creation. A woman, used to having the run of the Garden, and all of its say-so to herself, might've raised Jesse with God if she'd been roused up one morning to find a rib missing, and a man there to spoil the quiet and mess up the neatness and to pounce on her in the one-flesh act.


Leafy Rivers (1967)

Jessamyn West Quotes

If God had made a woman before he made a man, that might've been the end of creation. A woman, used to having the run of the Garden, and all of its...

If God had made a woman before he made a man, that might've been the end of creation. A woman, used to having the run of the Garden, and all of its...

If God had made a woman before he made a man, that might've been the end of creation. A woman, used to having the run of the Garden, and all of its...

If God had made a woman before he made a man, that might've been the end of creation. A woman, used to having the run of the Garden, and all of its...