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“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.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.
It made me tired just to think of it.”
― The Bell Jar
It made me tired just to think of it.”
― The Bell Jar
“...it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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