Linda Wagner-Martin explains that Sexton's biographer, Diane Middlebrook, "recounts possible sexual abuse by Anne's parents during her childhood." His life was not easy at all; she went through many things in her life that land her in a mental hospital, after the death of her husband according to Linda Wagner she occasionally abused her children, in an attempt to kill herself. She went to a psychiatric hospital to get help for a long time. According to the Poetry Foundation, Anne Sexton told Beatrice Berg that her writing began as therapy: "'My analyst told me to write between our sessions about what I felt and thought and dreamed.'" After all, she started writing about what his personal experience and what he felt; after which she started expressing her frustration and the perspective that society, especially men, see in women now