Men Quotes by Sylvia Plath

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

— Sylvia Plath

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And eat men like air

— Sylvia Plath

I collect men with interesting names.

— Sylvia Plath

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

— Sylvia Plath

I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man.

— Sylvia Plath

If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit.

— Sylvia Plath

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw…

— Sylvia Plath

Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.

— Sylvia Plath

I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.

— Sylvia Plath

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone…

— Sylvia Plath

The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words.

— Sylvia Plath

I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of…

— Sylvia Plath

Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery;…

— Sylvia Plath

There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me,…

— 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 had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, 'Ah!' in an encouraging way, as if he could see…

— Sylvia Plath

What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a…

— Sylvia Plath

Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God — or the universal woman-and-man — or anything much. I…

— Sylvia Plath

If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that…

— Sylvia Plath

I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously…

— Sylvia Plath

When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans…

— Sylvia Plath

Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous,…

— Sylvia Plath

I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted…

— Sylvia Plath

A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage…

— Sylvia Plath

“What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a…

— Sylvia Plath

I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman…

— Sylvia Plath

Ash, ash —- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—— A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold…

— Sylvia Plath

Do I like to write? Why? About what? Will I give up and say, "Living and feeding a man's insatiable guts and…

— Sylvia Plath