... 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. β¨ Sylvia Plath (2013). The Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.87, Anchor
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- The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B. Once you were beautiful. β¨ Sylvia Plath (2010). Winter Trees, p.25, Faber & Faber
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