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title: "5 Baths Quotes By Sylvia Plath"
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> [I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-lay-in-that-tub-on-the-seventeenth-floor-of-this-hotel-for-women/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/when-they-asked-some-old-roman-philosopher-or-other-how-he-wanted-to/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/991/sylvia-plath-149_baths_when-they-asked-some-old-roman-philosoph_1453035.jpg)

> [I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-am-sure-there-are-things-that-can-t-be-cured-by-a-good-bath-but-i/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f0/sylvia-plath-149_baths_i-am-sure-there-are-things-that-can-t-be_1544055.jpg)

> [I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-never-feel-so-much-myself-as-when-i-m-in-a-hot-bath/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/919/sylvia-plath-149_bath_i-never-feel-so-much-myself-as-when-i-m_2446244.jpg)

> [Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/whenever-i-m-sad-i-m-going-to-die-or-so-nervous-i-can-t-sleep-or-in/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/sylvia-plath-149_baths_whenever-i-m-sad-i-m-going-to-die-or-so_2809624.jpg)

## Other authors on Baths

## More by Sylvia Plath

> [“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/it-was-a-queer-sultry-summer-the-summer-they-electrocuted-the/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-love-life-but-it-is-hard-and-i-have-so-much-so-very-much-to-learn/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [... These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. ... --Lady Lazarus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/these-are-my-hands-my-knees-i-may-be-skin-and-bone-nevertheless-i-am/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/sure-i-m-dramatic-and-sloppily-semi-cynical-and-semi-sentimental-but/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/people-were-made-of-nothing-so-much-as-dust-and-i-couldn-t-see-that/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-couldn-t-stand-the-idea-of-a-woman-having-to-have-a-single-pure/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-saw-the-gooseflesh-on-my-skin-i-did-not-know-what-made-it-i-was-not/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-have-to-live-my-life-and-it-is-the-only-one-i-ll-ever-have/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [“The city had faded my tan, though. I looked yellow as a Chinaman. Ordinarily, I would have been nervous about my dress and my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/the-city-had-faded-my-tan-though-i-looked-yellow-as-a-chinaman/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/joy-show-joy-enjoy-then-others-will-be-joyful/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/a-million-years-of-evolution-eric-said-bitterly-and-what-are-we/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ --from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-have-stitched-life-into-me-like-a-rare-organ-from-three-women-a/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/it-is-so-much-safer-not-to-feel-not-to-let-the-world-touch-me/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [“Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond" Now coldness comes sifting down, layer after layer, To our bower at the lily root. Overhead the old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/flute-notes-from-a-reedy-pond-now-coldness-comes-sifting-down-layer/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [“The most saddening thing is to admit that I am not in love. I can only love (if that means self denial - or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/the-most-saddening-thing-is-to-admit-that-i-am-not-in-love-i-can-only/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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