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“…when her genius flowered, Plath took a preoccupying interest in feelings & ideas about the mind, at the cost of actions such as getting her painful partner [Ted Hughes] out of her life for good. Paradoxically, the chance 4 this very concentration, allow[ing] her at last to pursue her dream of becoming a great writer, came about through the everyday, material circumstances of the marriage’s breakdown.” -Sarah Ruden
— Dec 27, 2025 12:09PM
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“My favorite lines of Plath are in ‘Edge:’ ‘Her bare/Feet seem to be saying: “We have come so far, it is over.”’ It is a paradox, of course. Because Plath came so far, it is definitely not over; it is in fact a lesson in hope, in the possibility of things not being ended, in their enduring against all the odds.” — Sarah Ruden
— Dec 26, 2025 09:19AM
