... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people.
Sylvia PlathStars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.
Sylvia PlathShe looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.
Sylvia PlathWhat a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,โ and, โWhat a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
Sylvia Plath