Unlike her Lady Lazarus, she wouldn't find it 'easy enough to do it and stay put'. Sylvia Plath wouldn't survive the suicide, but 'Sylvia Plath' would.
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Unlike her Lady Lazarus, she wouldn't find it 'easy enough to do it and stay put'. Sylvia Plath wouldn't survive the suicide, but 'Sylvia Plath' would.
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That room, for all of us, became a place of transgression. What a wonderland it was!
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What use was algebra? Whatever you did to one side of the equation had to be done to the other, achieving the solution required symmetrical manipulation of the numbers on either side of the equal sign. That concept was irrelevant outside the world of mathematics. In real life, the word equality was just something that sounded good on parchment.
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The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.
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Too much power makes a woman dangerous, and that was her project: creation and power.
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"The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can't fly is a cage so large that a bird THINKS it CAN fly. Only a monster would lock a BIRD in here and call himself an animal lover."
Our cage was only for books [...]
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How many generations of women had delayed their greatness only to have time extinguish it completely? How many women had run out of time while the men didn't know what to do with theirs?
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You didn't walk in here for books. You didn't have to say my name. You didn't have to smile or listen or take me in. But you did. Your signature is on the receipt. This wasn't a cash transaction and it wasn't a coded debit. This was real. I press my thumb into the wet ink on your receipt and the ink of Guinevere Beck stains my skin.
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If people could handle their self-loathing, customer service would be smoother.
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...while Beth's mind danced in awe to the geometrical rococo of chess, rapt, enraptured, drowning in the grand permutations as they opened to her soul, and her soul opened to them.
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