Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

About Elizabeth Wurtzel:

Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel is an American writer and journalist, known for publishing her best-selling memoir Prozac Nation, at the age of 26. She holds a BA from Harvard College and a JD from Yale Law School.
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It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.

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I am not a nostalgic person.

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I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination.

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When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed.

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They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.

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But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here on this stoop in summer camp as if I were normal, day after day wearing down everybody who gets near me. My behavior seems, ...

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...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

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Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting,too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depres...

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There are all these things my mother is good for that my father isn't, and all these things my father is good for that my mother isn't, and if only they could work out their differences, or keep the dim of discord to a minimum, I could have two whole...

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The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

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You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

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I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that befor...

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The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

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I have had the same friends since college, although as time has gone on, the daily nature of those relationships has changed, such that it is not daily at all.

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I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrific...

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Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

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I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.

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I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes; that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.

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All I do is go to the movies.

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I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone has to be on the best-seller list, 'Why not me?' Someone has to write for the 'New Yorker,' 'Why not me?' And I didn't really get much positive reinforcement as...

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I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

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Author Bio

  • NameElizabeth Wurtzel
  • DescriptionAmerican author and journalist
  • AliasesElizabeth Lee Wurtzel
  • BornJuly 31, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Lawyer; Autobiographer
  • WorksProzac Nation