Anne Sexton Skins Quotations

My sleeping pill is white. It is a splendid pearl; it floats me out of myself, my stung skin as alien as a loose bolt of cloth.

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.

...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.