“And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Ash, ash —- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—— A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently, I wouldn't… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“This woman lawyer said the best men wanted to be pure for their wives, and even if they weren't pure, they wanted… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I tried to imagine what it would be like if Constantin were my husband. It would mean getting up at seven and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
... These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. ... --Lady Lazarus — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
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… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“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… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“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… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The city had faded my tan, though. I looked yellow as a Chinaman. Ordinarily, I would have been nervous about my dress and my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ --from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
