# Quote — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

> If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

- Author: [Sylvia Plath](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath.md)
- Book: [The Bell Jar](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-bell-jar.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-bell-jar/if-neurotic-is-wanting

## More from this book

> There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-bell-jar/there-ought-i-thought.md)

> How did I know that someday — at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere — the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn’t descend again?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-bell-jar/how-did-i-know.md)

> I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-bell-jar/i-took-a-deep.md)