“I would park illegally…like moths to an electric light bulb”: Anne Sexton, “The Barfly
Ought to Sing,” TriQuarterly no. 7 (1996): 174–75, quoted in Diane Wood Middlebrook, Anne
Sexton: A Biography (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1991), p. 107. Also from the Middlebrook
biography: “to be prepared to kill herself,” p. 165; “She stripped…asleep in familiar arms” and
“surprised by her suicide,” p. 397; “For Ernest Hemingway…that fear,” “woman’s way out,”
“I’m so fascinated…dying perfect,” and “a Sleeping Beauty,” all from p. 216.
Chart of suicide methods by fatality rate: “Lethality of Suicide Methods,” Harvard T. H. Chan
School of Public Health, January 6, 2017, https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-
matter/case-fatality, accessed March 17, 2019.
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