Annie hall Quote by Woody Allen

“The next morning I had Twentieth-Century American Poetry at MCC. This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes…

— John Green

“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

“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

People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

— Marilyn Hacker

“She needed this wedding—this perfect, minutely orchestrated wedding—to shout, This is who I am. To tell us all that she was not that girl…

— Joanna Rakoff

“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

“As Hester Prynne seemed to see some trace of her own sin in every bosom, by the glare of the Scarlet Letter burning on…

— Louisa May Alcott

Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while…

— Margaret Atwood

“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

“Lydia sometimes saw Plath as the woman she might someday become: caring, creative, content—but inaccessible to nearly everyone alive.”

— Matthew J. Sullivan

“Sylvia Day's writing is stunningly sensual.”

— Jaci Burton