“I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I would respect him. […] I also needed somebody quite experienced to make up for my lack of it […].” RespectIntelligenceLovingExperiencedLack Of ExperienceSleeping WithSleeping With SomebodyUnexperienced Book:the bell jar Source: the bell jar
“Then I knew what the trouble was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?” ExperienceWriterLove AffairWriting About LifeUnexperienced Book:the bell jar Source: the bell jar