Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark. Anne Sexton More Quotes by Anne Sexton More Quotes From Anne Sexton I want to be a child and not a mother, and I feel guilty about this. Anne Sexton feel child mother want Until I was twenty-eight, I had a kind of buried self who didn't know she could do anything but make white sauce and diaper babies. I didn't know I had any creative depths. Anne Sexton know creative self white I was a victim of the American Dream, the bourgeois, middle-class dream. All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children. Anne Sexton american-dream dream life children I wrote some serious stuff in high school; however, I hadn't been exposed to any of the major poets, not even the minor ones... I read nothing but Sara Teasdale. Anne Sexton nothing high-school serious school I said to my doctor at the beginning, 'I'm no good; I can't do anything. I'm dumb.' He suggested I try educating myself by listening to Boston's educational TV station. He said I had a perfectly good mind. Anne Sexton doctor good myself mind