# Quote — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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

- Author: [Sylvia Plath](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath.md)
- Book: [The Bell Jar](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-bell-jar.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath#The_Bell_Jar_(1963)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-bell-jar/there-ought-i-thought

## More from this book

> 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)

> To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-bell-jar/to-the-person.md)