...Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream mother-goose, Alice-and- Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life? -Sylvia Plath

 

...Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream mother-goose, Alice-and- Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?


Comments

There are not yet any comments on this quote. Why not register / login and be the first?



This quote is just one of 9 total Sylvia Plath quotes in our collection. Sylvia Plath is known for saying '...Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream mother-goose, Alice-and- Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?' as well as some of the following quotes.

I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it.

Sylvia Plath
227

...Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream mother-goose, Alice-and- Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?

Sylvia Plath
185
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. -Sylvia Plath
170

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

Sylvia Plath
167

What did my hands do before they held you?

Sylvia Plath
166
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. -Sylvia Plath
166

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

Sylvia Plath
148