bulb quotes

Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.

- Sylvia Plath
  'Wintering', published posthumously byTed Hughes (Ariel, 1965).

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

-TennesseeThomas Lanier Williams
  Blanche. A Streetcar Named Desire, sc.3