So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and h…

Sylvia Plath
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So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2016). The Bell Jar, p.45, Hamilton Books
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So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2016). The Bell Jar, p.45, Hamilton Books

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