Sylvia Plath Quotes

I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.

At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

If I want to stay at home watching movies, I do that. If I want to take my bike out and go on a one-month holiday, I do that. To do all these things, it's first of all important for me to realise that I need to live my life.

I want to follow my path.

Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.

One thing about me is that I don't like being told I can't do something.

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

Now, I simply do what I want.

I don't care what anyone says. It's my life, and I can do what I like.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

You can stay true to yourself and your friends, you can do the right thing, you can do with your life whatever you want to. I think that's a lovely message.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

We're allowed as adults to create a life that we like. Kids don't have that freedom.

I was emancipated at 15 and off to Japan on a contract working. I felt for my parents. I apologized profusely years later, but I was just very strong-willed and strong-minded and had my own idea - thought outside of the box.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.