Sylvia Plath quotes - page 13

I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man. (Sylvia Plath)
I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion. View quote
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I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up. View quote
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Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak. View quote
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I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. View quote
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Mother of otherness, Eat me. View quote
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Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful. View quote
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If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. View quote
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I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week. View quote
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I also hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you're feeling like hell and expect you to say "fine. View quote
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... 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. (Sylvia Plath)
Very few people do this any more. It's too risky. First of all, it's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all. View quote
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Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn't, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another. View quote
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. View quote
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you. View quote
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They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. --From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962. View quote
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. View quote
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Virginia Woolf helps. Her novels make mine possible. View quote
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I wait and ache. View quote
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it. From the poem "Years", 16 November 1962. View quote
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I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will. (Sylvia Plath)
How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or seen anybody die? View quote
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I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now? View quote
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I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there. --From the poem "Elm", written 19 April 1962. View quote
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I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. View quote
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