Able Quote by Elizabeth Wurtzel

“If too much has been made of the symptoms of Plath’s mental illness, so too little attention has been paid to its possible causes.…

— Andrew Wilson

“I began to realize, with some little horror, that she was nothing more than a lowbrow, pop-psychology version of Sylvia Plath. It lasted forever,…

— Donna Tartt

“Sylvia Plath is an example of the egotistical sublime: her subject is herself, her predicament, her violent Romantic emotions,” wrote the poet Craig Raine.”

— Andrew Wilson

Sylvia Plath wasn't scared of exploring the darker side of her psyche.

— Alexis Bledel

Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.

— Woody Allen

“I have never read Sylvia Plath. My mother has never read Virginia Woolf. In general, we have stayed out of one another's way like…

— Alison Bechdel

[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent…

— Anne Carson

It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The…

— Evangeline Lilly

“Sylvia possessed a deeply conditioned respect for authority. She wanted desperately to live up to the expectations of a society that viewed her as…

— Elizabeth Winder

“She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She skied recklessly. While Sylvia's rabid perfectionism…

— Elizabeth Winder

“However vivid they might be, past images and future delights did not protect Sylvia from the present, which "rules despotic over pale shadows of…

— Elizabeth Winder

“All year long Sylvia had been trying to overthrow her guileless, college girl image. She knew "cottons with big full skirts and university personalities"…

— Elizabeth Winder