When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the worl…

Sylvia Plath
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When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn’t, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2008). The Bell Jar, p.61, Faber & Faber
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