Sylvia Plath Quotes About Feminism

Quotes about: Feminism

• What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Feminism, Age

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

• And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Sad, Writing

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

• If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

  Sylvia Plath

  Expectations, Feminism, Classic

• Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heartbreak, Home, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.23, Anchor

• I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.

  Sylvia Plath

  Famous Inspirational, Book, Skills

• I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sadness, Mad, Choices

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.24, Anchor

• And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

  Sylvia Plath

  Loneliness, Dark, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.19, Anchor

• I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moving, Eye, Numbness

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.3, Hamilton Books

• I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

  Sylvia Plath

  Desire, Feminism, Classic

• Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Feminism, Classic

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.184, Anchor

• Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

  Sylvia Plath

  Kissing, Feminism, Important

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.197, Anchor

• There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Sad, Women

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

• There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

  Sylvia Plath

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.24, Hamilton Books

• The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Silence, Feminism

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

• Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Goal, Feminism

• I am too pure for you or anyone.

  Sylvia Plath

  Feminism, Classic, Being A Woman

  Sylvia Plath “Poemas”, Editora Iluminuras Ltda

• The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

  Sylvia Plath

  Regret, Past, Feminism

  "Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956".

• Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Mother, Responsibility

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.35, Anchor

• I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Soul, Feminism, Flesh

• Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Memories, Taken

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.14, Anchor

• When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Unrequited Love

• Is there no way out of the mind?

  Sylvia Plath

  Frustration, Mind, Feminism

  'Apprehensions'

• I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fall, People, Feminism

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.18, Anchor

• I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, People, Feminism

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

• Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Despair, Feminism

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.25, Anchor

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