Dear Enemy
February 11, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ―Sylvia Plath
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Lewis B. Sckolnick | February 11, 2013 at 2:30 pm
Sylvia Plath ‘improvised’ her Smith College honors thesis from that of Ruth Mortimer, Smith College, Class of 1953.
jocelyn | February 11, 2013 at 10:17 pm
also helps to have a man or husband who is already famous in the field to help your career get a jump start.