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hey, i'm new.
name: antoinette
age: 18
favorite female writers/poets with themes of madness? definitely sylvia plath. virginia woolf is a close second. aside from that, i also like sexton, dickenson, chopin (eh, not really *madness*, but similar themes), and there are probably some others that i can't currently think of.
favorite books on madness? i know this is typical/predictable/whatever, but i have to go with the bell jar.
favorite films which document or hint at "women & madness"? i guess it's girl, interrupted. i don't think i've seen that many. any suggestions?
favorite quote, or line from one of the authors/poets/books/film stated above? i have to go with plath once again:
"perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
and, of course, the sections of the bell jar in which she discusses feeling like the center of a hurricane and the knowledge that the bell jar will someday come back. i'm too lazy to look them up/type them, and most of you probably know what i'm talking about anyway. oh, and there's one other quote that i have to add. virginia woolf (mrs. dalloway):
"She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day."
There are about a million more poetry/literature cuts that i love, and another billion song lyrics (any other ani fans out there?), but i'll leave it at that.
do you have personal experiences which have been touched on in this community? i identify with all of the women listed above and have dealt with depression/borderline pd.
that's all. i love the idea of this community.
<3.
name: antoinette
age: 18
favorite female writers/poets with themes of madness? definitely sylvia plath. virginia woolf is a close second. aside from that, i also like sexton, dickenson, chopin (eh, not really *madness*, but similar themes), and there are probably some others that i can't currently think of.
favorite books on madness? i know this is typical/predictable/whatever, but i have to go with the bell jar.
favorite films which document or hint at "women & madness"? i guess it's girl, interrupted. i don't think i've seen that many. any suggestions?
favorite quote, or line from one of the authors/poets/books/film stated above? i have to go with plath once again:
"perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
and, of course, the sections of the bell jar in which she discusses feeling like the center of a hurricane and the knowledge that the bell jar will someday come back. i'm too lazy to look them up/type them, and most of you probably know what i'm talking about anyway. oh, and there's one other quote that i have to add. virginia woolf (mrs. dalloway):
"She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day."
There are about a million more poetry/literature cuts that i love, and another billion song lyrics (any other ani fans out there?), but i'll leave it at that.
do you have personal experiences which have been touched on in this community? i identify with all of the women listed above and have dealt with depression/borderline pd.
that's all. i love the idea of this community.
<3.