Anne Sexton Quotes

There's so much to becoming a woman.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

I'm a beginning, not an end.

I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more enhanced - that you're a woman trying to find your place in the world.

I was a changed being after that fight. I was nothing before. I was a man now.

In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.

'Hedwig' is not autobiographical, but what she goes through is clearly a big metaphor. She doesn't want to be what she is, but she comes to an understanding that what happened to her has actually made her whole.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person. The old personality is nowhere to be found. You have to start your life again from abc. You have to learn everything with fresh eyes, with a totally new heart. That's why meditation creates fear.

So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.