I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one. - Sylvia Plath

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen — physical or psychological — wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.

How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?