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Firsts Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
- Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I…
- It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.
- I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course,…
- The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and…
- It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up…
- Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember…
- I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.
- A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.
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