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“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ”
― Anais Nin

“I write emotional algebra.”
― Anais Nin

“He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.”
― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

“I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman”
― Anais Nin

“I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.”
― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

“I only feel close to people who arouse my energy, who make enormous demands of me, who are capable of enriching me with experience, pain, people who do not doubt my courage, or my toughness. People who do not believe me naive or innocent, but who challenge my keenest wisdom, who have the courage to treat me like a woman in spite of the fact that they are aware of my vulnerability.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“Your eyes make me shy”
― Anaïs Nin

“I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.”
― Anais Nin, Henry & June

“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I think I am mad sometimes.”
― Sylvia Plath

“I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

“Good to know that if I ever need attention all I have to do is die.”
― Sylvia Plath

“I am still raw.
I say I may be back.
You know what lies are for.

Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.

--from "Lesbos", written 18 October 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

“I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.

--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“It never occurred to me to say no.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“And I, love, am a pathological liar.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am I am I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I wait and ache.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.”
― Sylvia Plath

“I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

“I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?"
Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness.”
― Sylvia Plath

“I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Tomorrow is another day toward death.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.”
― Sylvia Plath