Hi..I've just joined live journal and I was looking for some cool community and i found this one..I think it's very very interesting. I'm getting my self close to female writers in this period, and I want to know more about female litterature. I absolutely LOVE Sylvia Plath. I'm very interested in the connections between madness, women and ( Read more... )

"Don't kill yourself on the fence, Clara," the woman urged her. "If you do that, you'll never know what happened to you." ~exchange between prisoners at Auschwitz; a powerful answer to give to those intending suicide in the death camps.

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am." ~Sylvia Plath

Hey, my name is Jess and I am new here. I've been a huge fan of female writers over the years, that have been mad. I really hate to use that word....hmm. I love Plath, Sexton, Wurtzel, Woolf and many others. I suppose I was intially drawn to these writers because I have bi-polar myself. Reading the works of these women has been really inspirational ( Read more... )

"...and the material, inert world mocked me."

There are sleeps that are born of spring and the slumbering hibernation of beaars in leaf-hushed caves... My shut eyelids felt the sun,, and my nose smelled the warm earth and my skin felt warm wind. Eyes close, body not yet mind, but still part of something - of air, of earth, of fire, of water.

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To bring up an old topic, I just saw an article in a magazine saying that Prozac Nation will finally be shown next month on the Starz! movie channel in ze U.S..

Finally.

I went to Ms Magazine to check out their site. When I got there I decided to visit the Ms Musings page, on which I found a link to a Death Blog, which led me to a List Of Famous Suicides. Did you know that the man who, as a boy, was the inspiration for J M Barrie's Peter Pan committed suicide? I haven't had a chance to check out too much yet ( Read more... )

Every 18 minutes in the U.S., someone dies by suicide. This July men and women will come to Chicago from all over the country to do something bold in the face of this fact. They will walk together 20 miles through the night, from dusk until dawn ( Read more... )

Hi everyone. My name is Kristine. I joined this community because I thought it looked rather interesting. Also, I am taking a women's studies course called Mental Health and Gender, which deals with women and mental disorders ( Read more... )

Hello. My name is Greta & I just joined. I joined because I have some of the interests in common with the interest list.

Sylvia Plath suffered from wanting so much in a world that did not allow women to want anything at all--anything, that is, outside of their allotted roles as unmarried women in the steno pool and married homemakers in the neighborhood coffee klatch. -- pg. 213 ( Read more... )