“I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor or pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
(This quote is probably wrongly attributed to Sylvia Plath)”
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(This quote is probably wrongly attributed to Sylvia Plath)”
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“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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