Melissa Tate

“I wished I hadn’t majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens.

Maybe tomorrow the pinhole would widen and I would want to be a marine biologist.”
― Kat Clark

“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”
― Warsan Shire

“The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon.”
― A. Alvarez, The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“I wondered what terrible thing it was that I had done.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar