Sylvia quotes Dick as telling her: "I am afraid the demands of wifehood and motherhood would preoccupy you too much to allow you to do the painting and writing you want." Dick was sharp enough to understand that the bright flame that drew him to Sylvia disqualified her from his future. He would not allow Sylvia- or any woman- to outshine him.
Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
double-standards, feminism, patriarchy, sexism