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Aug. 20th, 2016 05:54 pmFay Weldon, writing in 2002, on the suicides of Sylvia Plath (1963) and Assia Wevill (1969): "How could it happen, today's young women ask, in bewilderment? How could women see their lives only in terms of being loved or not loved by a man? The times were against them, so the times had to change. And so they did."
Russell T. Davies, in a 2016 interview about his adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream: "For example, in the original script, all the women at some point refer to killing themselves. 'But I refuse to transmit those lines now. In 2016 I'm not having lovelorn women say they'll kill themselves. I'm not putting that on BBC1; I absolutely refuse. Because I hope young girls will be watching this, and I don’t think it's an appropriate thing to say – 'I love you so much, if you don't love me I'll kill myself.' I think that's untransmittable, I'm not having it.'"
Russell T. Davies, in a 2016 interview about his adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream: "For example, in the original script, all the women at some point refer to killing themselves. 'But I refuse to transmit those lines now. In 2016 I'm not having lovelorn women say they'll kill themselves. I'm not putting that on BBC1; I absolutely refuse. Because I hope young girls will be watching this, and I don’t think it's an appropriate thing to say – 'I love you so much, if you don't love me I'll kill myself.' I think that's untransmittable, I'm not having it.'"
