“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
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“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
— Sylvia Plath, book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
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