Sylvia Plath:

I want to be able to write and be a woman and have children and be a wife and be a mother and be a lover and be a friend and be a daughter and be a sister and be a human being and be an artist. I want to be all those things.

— Sylvia Plath Modern

The Bell Jar, confessional poetry

Context

Journal entry

Date / Period

1956

Source

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/601174-i-am-a-victim-of-the-american-way-of-lif…

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Cross Reference

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