Sylvia Plath, poetess and patron saint of college kids everywhere discovering their feminism, we salute you! To honor the feminist icon, here are some of the best Sylvia Plath quotes to bring out your inner Lisa Simpson:
"This is the silence of astounded souls."
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Endure, endure, and the syllables harden like stoic white sheets struck with rigor mortis on the clothesline of winter.
It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water
Perhaps that’s why I want to be everyone - so no one can blame me for being I.
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.
To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend a lifetime trying to learn and understand.
If you could do a lot of things over again, ah, how differently you would do them!
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 my life. And I am horribly limited.
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.
"Why can't I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which one fits me and is most becoming?"
Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
I am afraid of getting older… I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free… I want, I want to think, to be omniscient… I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.
I too want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
If they substituted "Lust" for "Love" in the popular songs it would come nearer to the truth."
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..
I desire the things which will destroy me in the end. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing the rest.
"After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.
I think I made you up inside my head.
Yes I was infatuated with you: I still am. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand to be a passing fancy.
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