The most terrifying realisation is that so many millions in the world would like to be in my place: I am not ugly, not an imbecile, not poor, not crippled--I am in fact, living in the free, spoiled, pampered country of America and going for hardly any money at all to one of the best colleges. -- Sylvia Plath. Journal, November 3, 1952. Agenda, 7 May 2000, p. 4