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" 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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Elizabeth Wurtzel

Women

People

" 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. "

" I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender. "

" Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore. "

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

" 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. "

" I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated. "

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Work

Only

" That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. "

" 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

" As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of party allegiance; Democrats and Republicans equally unite behind the blue-and-white. "

" 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. "

" The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same. "

" Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die. "

" I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty. "

" 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. "

" Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across. "

" All I do is go to the movies. "

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Movies

" 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. "

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Living

Stupid

" 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. "

" My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. "

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Character

Depression

" In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. "

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

" 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. "

" It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with. "

" 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. "

" Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it. "

" Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish. "