Sylvia Plath

Every woman adores a Fascist.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.