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" I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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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 a kid, so I thought, 'Well let me show you what I can do.' "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Kid
Myself
Positive
" Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Everything
Plastic
Die
" 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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Smart
Day
Character
" 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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Know
Sad
Face
" 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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Men
Time
Money
" 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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Integrity
Work
Person
" I am a hopeless, shameless flirt. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Am
Shameless
I Am
" 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
" All I do is go to the movies. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Movies
Go
" 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
Next
Stupid
" 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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Work
Wisdom
Time
" 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
" 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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Anger
Depression
Work
" I am not a nostalgic person. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Nostalgic
Person
Am
" Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Yourself
Feminism
Good
" 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 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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Want
Exhausted
I Am
" Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Stop
Knowing
Insanity
" 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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Men
Life
Alive
" You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Time
Hate
You
" In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Power
Women
Single
" 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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Romantic
Football
Goddess
" 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
Say
Will
" I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Been
Well
Paid
" 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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Life
Myself
My Life
" 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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Good
Great
Like
" 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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Wolf
Feel
Say
" 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
Women
People
Me
" I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Me
Paper
Sit
" 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. "
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Country
Good
Live