That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

—Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar

About Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and her works include The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her...

More quotations from Sylvia Plath

The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

—Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: "I'll go take a hot bath.

—Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

—Sylvia Plath

Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.

—Sylvia Plath

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

—Sylvia Plath

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