Oct. 5th, 2016

Sylvia

Oct. 5th, 2016 07:24 pm
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“I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother.”

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“So he accuses me of ‘struggling for dominance’? Sorry, wrong number. Sure, I’m a little scared of being dominated. (Who isn’t? Just the submissive, docile, milky type of individual. And that is not he, Not me.) But that doesn’t mean I, ipso facto, want to dominate.”

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“Also, in spite of the fact that he has tried with a vengeance to enter into my appreciation of art and my writing interests … he recently states that a poem ‘is so much inconsequential dust.’ With that attitude, how can he be so hypocritical as to pretend he likes poetry?”

-- Sylvia Plath, the Journals

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