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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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" 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 am not a nostalgic person. "

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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" 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. "

" It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women. "

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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People

" 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. "

" In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Elizabeth Wurtzel

American Dream

American

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels. "

" 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. "

" I am a hopeless, shameless flirt. "

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Shameless

I Am

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Work

Only

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Sort

False

" My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me. "

" I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted. "

" 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

" I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in 'American Psycho.' In 1993, every day was 'let's get lost.' I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found. "