People are fascinated by you; why do you think that is?
lydiafaithfull
lydiafaithfull
She was a bit of a whack job, but I did like her writing, or what I would read of it. “Bitch” wasn’t bad.
Leptomeningeal cancer complications just adds insult to injury. I'm so sorry to read that she had to deal with that at the end.
Yes, it was BRCA
It seems like an end of an era for me... I discovered her book “Bitch” when I was 23 and it helped form ideas that had been bouncing around in my head but never formalized into “feminist”. Prozac Nation hit me hard when I was struggling with my own issues. I think I’ll re-read Bitch out of memory.
I read it during one of my “I don’t have bipolar, these people don’t know what they’re talking about. lots of people don’t sleep for 72 hours and have the best ideas and crash because they’re just tired!” phases. admittedly, it was after I watched the movie and wanted to know more about the person behind the book -…
There was been a long and very successful effort to redeem Hughes, which means that more recent revelations that he was physically abusive to Plath (which may or may not have caused her miscarriage) and told her he “wished she was dead” two days before her suicide have gone mostly ignored.
Agreed - the depth of her experience with her mental illness and her cancer was inspiring. When I read Prozac Nation I was struck by the entirety of her experience: the despair, hopelessness and anger she wrote about was real and brought important visibility to mental illness.
In 2000 when I was a 21 year old suffering from severe depression I read Prozac Nation and it hit me so hard. I felt like there was someone else like me who understood what it felt like to have this monster smashing around in my head. I know she had some problematic views, and that many felt the book was…
She died two years older than my mother, who also had metastatic breast cancer that wound up in her brain, liver, lymphs, and eye. My mother fought the disease for over a decade - and she died over 16 years ago. I won’t pretend that I’ve stayed on top of the latest medical advances, but it is a crime that we are still…
The original context for that quote has all but disappeared from the internet, and most people got it out of context or piecemeal. But it was reasonably clear from the context—and very clear from how she’s spoken about 9/11 in retrospect—that she was describing being in shock ( “I think I have some kind of emotional…
Breast cancer claimed my mother. Fuck breast cancer. Women, please, please, get tested.
I know people mean well when they say this kind of thing but as someone that still can’t get out of bed today it just makes me feel worse.
She will be missed, she was such an out and proud voice for mental illness. Refusing to be defined by her diagnosis. And I think that carried through to her cancer.
Though I wasn’t well acquainted with her work, from what I knew of her she really bugged me. Nonetheless, I’m finding myself unexpectedly very saddened by this news.
Though I wasn’t well acquainted with her work, from what I knew of her she really bugged me. Nonetheless, I’m finding myself unexpectedly very saddened by this news.
Did I see somewhere this was related to BRCA gene? Remiss to not include this detail, if it’s indeed true.
I will miss her so much.
I adored her, she put into simple words what my heart and mind had always found so indescribable. My heart goes out to her family and friends.