Quotes from Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.

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.

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security, ' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

I woke to the sound of rain.

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.