“When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.” WritingSaidGirlHouseGivenShadowLet MeAidsKitchenStayingChinks Book:Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays Source: Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays
“A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.” ShouldLooksKindFactsMotherGirlSocialCausesBirthDiseaseShadowAcknowledgeHypocrisyEnlightenedFacts Of LifeBirth ControlImpunityUnmarried Book:A Matter of Life and Death Source: A Matter of Life and Death
“Suddenly I'm not half the girl I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me . . . From me to you out of my electric devil.” UsedGirlFearHalfDevilShadowUsed To BeElectric Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton