Mother Quote by Augusten Burroughs

A woman who writes feels too much.

— Anne Sexton

Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special,…

— Lewis Thomas

“Life, of course, never gets anyone's entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, draws us. As sleep is necessary to our physiology, so…

— Janet Malcolm

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.

— Joni Mitchell

“ONE CAN'T BUILD LITTLE WHITE PICKET FENCES TO KEEP NIGHTMARES OUT. -Anne Sexton”

— Kimberly McCreight

I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking…

— Lena Dunham

“Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.”

— Matt Haig

I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.…

— Erica Jong

¢ Your silence has been with me and I have let it have its say. I feel, as always, the same closeness to you…

— Aroha Janet

I definitely notice the absence of character in most poetry, which is not so say that I'm an innovator in that regard. Character-based poems…

— Shane McCrae

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly…

— Francesca Lia Block

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

— Aja Monet

“Don’t fall in love with a woman who reads, a woman who feels too much, a woman who writes... From a woman like that,…

— Martha Rivera-Garrido

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa