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Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at

At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at 24.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Depression gave me extreme perspicacity; rather than skin, it was as if I had only thin gauze bandages to shield me from everything I saw.

Depression gave me extreme perspicacity; rather than skin, it was as if I had only thin gauze bandages to shield me from everything I saw.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.

I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I am not a nostalgic person.

I am not a nostalgic person.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.

Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I dont want to die, i dont want to live either.

I dont want to die, i dont want to live either.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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

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

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I'm not crying because you're mean. I just can't imagine how incredibly painful it must be to be you.

I'm not crying because you're mean. I just can't imagine how incredibly painful it must be to be you.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: If you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.

If you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Happiness is a choice, you've got to work towards it

Happiness is a choice, you've got to work towards it

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.

Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: All I do is go to the movies.

All I do is go to the movies.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

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

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

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 quotes: If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

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

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: 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.

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.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.

But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart.

I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart.

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

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I know by now, only too well, that you can never get away from yourself because you never go away.

I know by now, only too well, that you can never get away from yourself because you never go away.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.

As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Whether the emotion is true or truly wished for, anytime anything resembling love comes my way, it makes a fool of me. It

Whether the emotion is true or truly wished for, anytime anything resembling love comes my way, it makes a fool of me. It

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I dont know if im running because i'm scared or if i'm scared because i'm running.

I dont know if im running because i'm scared or if i'm scared because i'm running.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: What makes you think i'm so rich you can steal my heart and i won't feel a thing?

What makes you think i'm so rich you can steal my heart and i won't feel a thing?

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: And I want out of this life on drugs.

And I want out of this life on drugs.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: You don't need an excuse to be depressed.

You don't need an excuse to be depressed.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: If you already know what your response will be before you've heard what the other person has said, you are not listening.

If you already know what your response will be before you've heard what the other person has said, you are not listening.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: For all of my life I have needed more.

For all of my life I have needed more.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: If only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

If only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.

Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: 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 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 quotes: Bitch: In praise of difficult women.

Bitch: In praise of difficult women.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I wasn't just the madwoman in the atticI was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic
I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Sometimes someone will be standing in front of me, and already I feel him walking away. It's only a matter of time, so what's the point?

Sometimes someone will be standing in front of me, and already I feel him walking away. It's only a matter of time, so what's the point?

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

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

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

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain.

All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity.

Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

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

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: He seemed a fool-everyone who didn't feel like me seems a fool.

He seemed a fool-everyone who didn't feel like me seems a fool.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Years of depression have robbed me of that - well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

Years of depression have robbed me of that - well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Okay so enough about me..now what do you think about me?

Okay so enough about me..now what do you think about me?

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I'd like.

Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I'd like.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Very early in my life it was already too late.

Very early in my life it was already too late.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.

So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Pass the pills and fancy plants/ Give us this day our daily trance.

Pass the pills and fancy plants/ Give us this day our daily trance.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: Time passes slowly, or too fast, or it makes no difference.

Time passes slowly, or too fast, or it makes no difference.

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes: I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I'm being drowned by some kind of black wave.

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I'm being drowned by some kind of black wave.