Feminism Quotes by Sylvia Plath

I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.

— Sylvia Plath

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

— Sylvia Plath

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

— Sylvia Plath

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

— Sylvia Plath

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

— Sylvia Plath

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.

— Sylvia Plath

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

— Sylvia Plath

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

— Sylvia Plath

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear…

— Sylvia Plath

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting…

— Sylvia Plath

I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it…

— Sylvia Plath

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

— Sylvia Plath

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware…

— Sylvia Plath

I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell,…

— Sylvia Plath

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an…

— Sylvia Plath

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of…

— Sylvia Plath

“Neurotic, ha!" I let out a scornful laugh. "If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time,…

— Sylvia Plath

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at…

— Sylvia Plath

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my…

— Sylvia Plath

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the…

— Sylvia Plath

“Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries…

— Sylvia Plath

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

— Sylvia Plath

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak,…

— Sylvia Plath

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know…

— Sylvia Plath