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Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
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Writer
Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
Talking
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Words
Typewriter
Woman
Typewriters
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Women
Seed
Take
Seeds
Purging
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Grass
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