“It never occurred to me to say no.”

— Sylvia Plath, book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963

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Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 7

“Society says with the authority of its police power how intercourse will and will not occur. Any act so controlled by the state, proscribed and prescribed in detail, cannot be private in the ordinary sense. Privacy is essentially a sphere of freedom immune from regulation by the state. In that sense, intercourse has never occurred in private.”

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Source: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 8, "Law"

“It never occurred to me to say no.”

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