Status Updates From Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“ugly angels spoke to me. The blame, I heard them say, was mine. They tatted— like green witches in my head, letting doom leak like a broken faucet”

"She never labelled herself a 'feminist', bur her fruitful career did indeed break through her assigned role as a 'housewife' in the fifties and early sixties (...) In her copy of the groundbreaking 'The Feminine Mystique' by the American author Betty Friedan, Anne underlined so hard with her pencil that the page was scored, as she wrote repeatedly in the margin 'This is me! Me!'"