Experience Quote by Sylvia Plath

““Then I knew what the trouble was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?””

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“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”

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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.

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... These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. ... --Lady Lazarus

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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…

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“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…

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“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…

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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No,…

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I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.

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“The city had faded my tan, though. I looked yellow as a Chinaman. Ordinarily, I would have been nervous about my dress and my…

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Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.

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A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.

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“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ --from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962”

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