Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable feminity.
— Sylvia Plath Modern

The Bell Jar, confessional poetry

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From 'The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath'.

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Undated, likely early 1950s

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Shocking

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https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/601174-the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-p…

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