Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton

by Linda Gray Sexton

If we must hear the truth, let us hear it all. Let us be able to say at the end: this is the price and reward of madness; this is the price and reward of genius.

The only way to transcend the hurt is to tell it all, and to tell it honestly.

naked and quivering on the examining table of her art.