“Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.”

— Sylvia Plath , book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Something Blue

“This morning I will not
Comb my hair.
It has lain
Pillowed on the hand of my lover.”

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662–710) Japanese poet

XX, p. 22
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)

“We are all made of air
There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair
And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better”

Zooey Deschanel (1980) American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter

"Brand New Shoes".
Volume Two (2010)

“All the girls say they love me
all their mums say I'm lovely —
ever since I lived in the clouds.”

Daljit Nagra (1966) British poet, teacher and broadcaster

Poem: Raja's Love Song

“I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Dust Tracks on a Road

Source: Dust Tracks on a Road

“I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.”

Sarah Jessica Parker (1965) American actress

Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008

“The night crackled… Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

“Well, I don’t ever plan anything in my books. Since I don’t outline, I tend to just go wherever my imagination leads me and where I feel excited to write about. I tend to write scenes that I would want to read.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

As quoted in "To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before author Jenny Han on watching her book become a phenomenon" in Vox (4 June 2019) https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/6/4/18648808/to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before-jenny-han-interview

“Looking out on the morning rain,
I used to feel so uninspired.
And when I knew I had to face another day,
Lord, it made me feel so tired.
Before the day I met you, life was so unkind.
Your love was the key to my peace of mind.'Cause you make me feel.
You make me feel,
You make me feel like
A natural woman”

Carole King book A Natural Woman

woman
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (1967), Co-written with Gerry Goffin and Jerry Wexler
Song lyrics, Singles

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