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After a while I suppose I’ll get used to the idea of marriage and children. If only it doesn’t swallow up my desires to express myself in a smug, sensuous haze. Sure, marriage is self expression, but if only my art, my writing, isn’t just a mere sublimation of my sexual desires which will run dry once I get married. If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn’t I expect it in a man?
-- Sylvia Plath Journals, 1950
The problem, as she will learn, is that if a man is “physically magnetic and personable”, he will probably be bedding chicks left and right. Marriage will not be an escape from the emotional storms and violent passions. Indeed, maybe it is this that will invigorate her art to the next level and secure her name in the literary world.
-- Sylvia Plath Journals, 1950
The problem, as she will learn, is that if a man is “physically magnetic and personable”, he will probably be bedding chicks left and right. Marriage will not be an escape from the emotional storms and violent passions. Indeed, maybe it is this that will invigorate her art to the next level and secure her name in the literary world.
