--- title: "6 Hated Quotes By Sylvia Plath" description: "6 Hated quotes by Sylvia Plath. Plus more from Sylvia Plath and more Hated sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f07/sylvia-plath-149_hated_the-trouble-was-i-hated-the-idea-of-serv_178872.jpg" --- > [“The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/the-trouble-was-i-hated-the-idea-of-serving-men-in-any-way/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f07/sylvia-plath-149_hated_the-trouble-was-i-hated-the-idea-of-serv_178872.jpg) > [“I hated to serve men in any way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-hated-to-serve-men-in-any-way/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a41/sylvia-plath-149_hated_i-hated-to-serve-men-in-any-way-336263_336263.jpg) > [I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-shall-never-get-out-of-this-there-are-two-of-me-now-this-new/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c40/sylvia-plath-149_bed_i-shall-never-get-out-of-this-there-are_1114369.jpg) > [A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/a-baby-i-hated-babies-i-who-for-two-and-a-half-years-had-been-the/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3d/sylvia-plath-149_babies_a-baby-i-hated-babies-i-who-for-two-and_2383748.jpg) > [I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-didn-t-know-shorthand-either-this-meant-i-couldn-t-get-a-good-job/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32a/sylvia-plath-149_adventure_i-didn-t-know-shorthand-either-this-mean_2985818.jpg) > [“I hated men because they didn’t stay around and love me like a father: I could prick holes in them & show…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-hated-men-because-they-didn-t-stay-around-and-love-me-like-a-father/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d7/sylvia-plath-149_hated_i-hated-men-because-they-didn-t-stay-aro_2993360.jpg) ## Other authors on Hated ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hated/sylvia-plath/#itemlist", "name": "6 Hated Quotes By Sylvia Plath", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sylvia Plath" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/the-trouble-was-i-hated-the-idea-of-serving-men-in-any-way/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f07/sylvia-plath-149_hated_the-trouble-was-i-hated-the-idea-of-serv_178872.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f07/sylvia-plath-149_hated_the-trouble-was-i-hated-the-idea-of-serv_178872.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f07/sylvia-plath-149_hated_the-trouble-was-i-hated-the-idea-of-serv_178872.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way.” — Sylvia Plath", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I hated to serve men in any way.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sylvia Plath" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-hated-to-serve-men-in-any-way/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a41/sylvia-plath-149_hated_i-hated-to-serve-men-in-any-way-336263_336263.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a41/sylvia-plath-149_hated_i-hated-to-serve-men-in-any-way-336263_336263.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a41/sylvia-plath-149_hated_i-hated-to-serve-men-in-any-way-336263_336263.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I hated to serve men in any way.” — Sylvia Plath", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I shall never get out of this! 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