"Three times each day the nurses injected me, and about an hour after each injection they gave me a cup of sugary fruit juice and stood by, watching me drink it" (Plath 191).

“[Doctor Gordon] dragged out a table on wheels with a machine on it and rolled it behind the head of the bed. The nurse started swabbing my temples with a smelly grease.”

“Doctor Gordon was fitting two metal plates on either side of my head. He buckled them into place with a strap that dented my forehead, and gave me a wire to bite. I shut my eyes. There was a brief silence, like an indrawn breath. Then something bent down and took hold of me and shook me like the end of the world.”

“Valerie pushed aside her black bangs and indicated two pale marks, one on either side of her forehead, as if at some time she had started to sprout horns, but cut them off”

“‘Do you know what these scars are?’ Valerie persisted.
‘No. What are they?’
‘I’ve had a lobotomy.’
I looked at Valerie in awe, appreciating for the first time her perpetual marble calm. ‘How do you feel?’
‘Fine. I’m not angry any more. Before, I was always angry. I was in Wymark, before, and now I’m in Caplin. I can go to town now, or shopping or to a movie, along with a nurse.’”