Anne Sexton Marriage Quotations

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

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.

you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

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.

Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice....