“For all her insecurities, [Sylvia] Plath was the kind of American woman who gets a lock on femininity by saying, in effect: ‘Listen, buster, I’m giving you five minutes to dominate me, and if I’m not dominated by then, you’re toast.'”

–Florence King, book review in The Florence King Reader; not sure whether this is accurate as to Plath, but oh how I recognize the type of woman King’s describing!