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Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.

Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath
Age: 30 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 27
Died: 1963
Died: February 11
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath Hughes
Woman
Bulb
Stills
Bulbs
Women
Knitting
Still
Spanish
Body
Cradle
Think
Dumb
Thinking
Winter
Walnut
Cold
Walnuts

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