“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.”
Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963) was a poet and novelist known for her semi-autobiographical book The Bell Jar. She experienced a lot of trauma in her short life and committed suicide when she was a mother of two young children. However, she was also a wise woman and a keen observer of human nature. You can read more about her here. Writers may appreicate this sentence, “Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”