Sylvia Plath — "I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to suffer. When I am …"

"God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of 'parties' with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to …"

"I want to be a woman who is a wife and mother, but also a famous writer. I want to have a life of my own, and not just be an appendage to a man."

"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."

"If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth."

"Perhaps when we are old and ill, in a world of our own, we may feel as if we are of no account to anyone. But we are not old, not ill, and we have the world to live in."