“I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath. I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near onto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.” PureCleanBathingPurificationPurification Of The HeartRefreshedTaking Care Of YourselfHot BathBaptism Of The Spirit Book:the bell jar Source: the bell jar
“Doreen is dissolving, Lenny Shepherd is dissolving, Frankie is dissolving, New York is dissolving, they are all dissolving away and none of them matter anymore.I don't know them. I have never known them and I am very pure.” The Bell JarHot BathDoreen Book:the bell jar Source: the bell jar
“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I’ll go take a hot bath.' I meditate in the bath.The water needs to be very hot, so hot you can barely stand putting your foot in it. Then you lower yourself, inch by inch, till the water’s up to your neck.” BathingBathCoping StrategiesInsomnia CureTaking Care Of YourselfCoping With LifeHot BathCoping With Anxiety Author:Sylvia Plath
“Still, feeling deeply that his filth was as unforgivable imposition, he'd chosen to bathe first, and thus had he discovered, at the age of twenty, the incomparable pleasure of submergence in hot water. Who knew?” TruthHot Bath Book:Strange the Dreamer Source: Strange the Dreamer