Quotes by Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953

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For years I wondered what was her curious power, her ability to attract all kinds of people to her and to use them for h — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Sylvia possessed a deeply conditioned respect for authority. She wanted desperately to live up to the expectations of a — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Sylvia quotes Dick as telling her: "I am afraid the demands of wifehood and motherhood would preoccupy you too much to a — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
When I was doing the Mademoiselle application my husband would peer over my shoulder and say, "What are you doing compet — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
The very act of accepting her position at Mademoiselle was an act of open defiance against Dick Norton, his entire famil — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Sylvia would have taken it seriously- so strong was her devotion to the innate intelligence of form. Those pretty tools — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
However vivid they might be, past images and future delights did not protect Sylvia from the present, which "rules despo — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Sylvia had begun her month in New York with princessy pomp and fanfare….Her departure on June 27 was entirely different. — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
...she could not stick by the golden mean...was always anxious to experiment in extremes...to find out what was enough b — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
That none discussed their doubts, that they assumed everyone else was just having a grand time of it and felt at ease an — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
This is the story of an electrically alive young woman on the brink of her adult life. An artist equally attuned to the — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat. — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
We knew she [Sylvia] was unusual, because of the seriousness with which she was treated, the lofty importance of her job — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Before New York, the cracks were already there, but now they began to split open and gape, and the difference between ho — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
It is perhaps fortunate that Sylvia was oblivious to the commotion behind the scenes. Apparently, Henry O. Teltscher had — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
New clothes left Sylvia reeling with happiness. For Sylvia, a shopping list was a poem. She always shopped alone - it su — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee. They were nervou — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Cyrilly expected Sylvia – as an intelligent and ambitious young woman – to walk around pale-mouthed and flat-shoed. She — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
And is not all of life material- based on the material- permeated by the material? Should not one learn, gladly, to util — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
All year long Sylvia had been trying to overthrow her guileless, college girl image. She knew "cottons with big full ski — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953