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  • #1
    Sylvia Plath
    “Is there no way out of the mind?”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #2
    Sylvia Plath
    “Dying
    Is an art, like everything else.
    I do it exceptionally well.
    I do it so it feels like hell.
    I do it so it feels real.
    I guess you could say I have a call.”
    Sylvia Plath, Ariel

  • #3
    Sylvia Plath
    “What did my fingers do before they held him?”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #4
    Sylvia Plath
    “Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #5
    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #6
    Sylvia Plath
    “I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #7
    Sylvia Plath
    “If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time. ”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #8
    Sylvia Plath
    “How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #9
    Sylvia Plath
    “Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #10
    Sylvia Plath
    “I am too pure for you or anyone.

    From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962”
    Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

  • #11
    Sylvia Plath
    “Mother of otherness,
    Eat me.
    --from "Poem for a Birthday - Who", written 1960”
    Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

  • #12
    Sylvia Plath
    “So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #13
    Sylvia Plath
    “Tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe,
    designing futures where nothing will occur:
    cross the gypsy’s palm and yawning she
    will still predict no perils left to conquer.
    Jeopardy is jejune now: naïve knight
    finds ogres out-of-date and dragons unheard
    of, while blasé princesses indict
    tilts at terror as downright absurd.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #14
    Sylvia Plath
    “I think I am mad sometimes.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #15
    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #16
    Sylvia Plath
    “I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #17
    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #18
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #19
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #20
    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #21
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

  • #23
    Virginia Woolf
    “Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #24
    William Shakespeare
    “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
    William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

  • #25
    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #26
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #27
    Lewis Carroll
    “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
    "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
    "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
    "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #28
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #29
    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #30
    Henry Miller
    “Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
    Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird



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