5 Quotes by Anne Sexton about marriage


  • Author Anne Sexton
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    Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

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    And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.

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    I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.

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