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Anne Sexton Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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This page presents the quote "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.". Author of this quote is Anne Sexton. This quote is about moving, purging, grass, women, drumming, talking, typewriters,.