Quotes by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be h — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to sile — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for mi — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death. — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that b — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and aft — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would feel differently, I w — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at all. — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marr — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's emotions are differen — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful. — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college stood around on the por — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar