I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm so good I must be perfect. Or nothing. I am, on the contrary, something: a being who gets tired, has shyness to fight, has more trouble than most facing people easily.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (ed. Anchor, 2007) - ISBN: 9780307429506