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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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
I Am
Me
Am
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" You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time. "
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" I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it. "
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" I've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I've spent a lot of my life being in it for the plot, and I don't do that anymore. I'm satisfied. I'm not competing with myself. I accomplished things I wanted to do, so everything I do now is because I want to, not because I'm trying to prove something. "
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" Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
People
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Will
" Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to. "
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You
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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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" Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Yourself
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" Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened. "
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Good
Great
Like
" Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Hurt
Live
Life
" I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is what I am. I did not choose writing - it chose me. And I believe it is necessarily that way. Anyone doing this for some other reason should not be. "
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Way
Writing
Believe
" Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
People
Face
Think
" 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 a kid, so I thought, 'Well let me show you what I can do.' "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Kid
Myself
Positive
" My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Quite
Glamorous
Dull
" I am a hopeless, shameless flirt. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Am
Shameless
I Am
" I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Wish
Forward
I Am
" I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. "
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Life
Feel
Start
" There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl. "
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Living
Next
Stupid
" 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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Know
Sad
Face
" Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it. "
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Stop
Knowing
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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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Sleeping
Trouble
You
" Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless. "
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Action
Instinct
Odds
" People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty. "
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Anger
Depression
Work
" Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren't brilliant or beautiful or both, there isn't much to do, because they can do it cheaper in Shanghai or Mumbai. "
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Now
You
Great
" I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world's hard drive, I would save Bob Dylan's work for sure - he's the greater talent, and by leaps and bounds and skyscrapers and rocket blasts. But Bob Dylan is an alien to his public. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Talent
Work
World
" Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies. "
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Shame
Country
Endure
" Some people just seem like they are up to no good. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict, and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to. "
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People
High School
Good
" 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 sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. "
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Romantic
Football
Goddess
" The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school. "
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Truth Is
Always
Truth
" It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women. "
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Women
People
Me
" All I do is go to the movies. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Movies
Go