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“I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. I felt like a racehorse in a world without race-tracks...”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I would rather be a mediocre writer than a bad actress.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.

I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near onto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I simply don’t know what to do.
All joy and hope is gone.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath