The Bell Jar Quotes

Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean to say is, without her words, I'd be exponentially more messed up than I am already.

Arlaina Tibensky

I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.

I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.

She looked terrible, but very wise.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.