

“There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.”
― Wives and Daughters
― Wives and Daughters

“Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
― Gaudy Night
― Gaudy Night

“Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.”
― Letter to My Daughter
― Letter to My Daughter

“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.”
― The Instructions
― The Instructions
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