Elizabeth Wurtzel quote: "Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would."

I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids ...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion ever...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful pro...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she see...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I ...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassette...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show throu...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world withou...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual ...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of my...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, bu...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I ju...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Women who have it all should try having nothing: I have no husband, no children, no real estate, no ...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amo...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can sur...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I'...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren'...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star se...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, th...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fa...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just c...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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

And I know, knew for sure, with an absolute certainty, that this is rock bottom, this what the worst...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade C...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that do...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone ha...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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

Some catastrophic moments invite clarity, explode in split moments: You smash your hand through a wi...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes; that is that, and I am heartbroken to live...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and rece...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees th...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards sla...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life ...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation'...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I’ve been looking for a feeling like that everywhere I go. I’ve been waiting for someone to see ...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, mayb...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alch...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I e...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

If I were another person, I go on, I wouldn’t want to deal with me, I don’t want to deal with me...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

But he does insist on a conversation. Goddamn it! Why can't people just do what I want them to do an...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

That's the problem with reality, that's the fallacy of therapy: It assumes that you will have a seri...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Very early in my life it was already too late.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Why do anything-- why wash my hair, why read Moby Dick, why fall in love, why sit through six hours ...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went ba...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary T...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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

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

Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mi...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't s...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. Th...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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

it's the people you are close to, the ones who love you, theo nes who have seen your heart, who have...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I start to feel like I cant maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through....
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comf...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, ...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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

"The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longes...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassette...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents shou...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was cer...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I love...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

"In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was ce...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

"I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassett...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

"...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards sl...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

"Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can'...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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

"I froze before the keyboard. I couldn't think of a damn thing to say. No poems, no prose, no words....
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees th...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I froze before the keyboard. I couldn't think of a damn thing to say. No poems, no prose, no words. ...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowne...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything thr...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart ...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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

And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything thr...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I ...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Experience," which is just a euphemism for heartache and heartbreak, failed love and false promises,...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and cons...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story becaus...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

All the backpedaling and backstepping that goes on with powerful women today, with Hillary Clinton s...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Tolstoy is frequently quoted as saying something about how all happy families are the same. but unha...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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

Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. Th...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and aga...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

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

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

Bitch: In praise of difficult women.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Alcohol & calculus don't mix. Never drink & derive.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

A television event's ability to rise above the current prime-time average is a true measure of its s...
ALAN WURTZEL

While DVR penetration is still relatively low, it certainly is an emerging technology. Measuring it ...
ALAN WURTZEL

The seven-day rating is the most accurate; it takes into account all the viewing that ultimately too...
ALAN WURTZEL

It is another interesting way to look at viewer opinion, and we are going to be speaking with these ...
ALAN WURTZEL

This is a profound change in terms of the day-to-day. We've never had a situation where we've had to...
ALAN WURTZEL

There is so much sensitivity toward alcohol and how it is consumed.
ALAN WURTZEL

This is what we're going to have to rely on to protect this canal and this part of the city.
DAVE WURTZEL

The protection is very tenuous at best.
DAVE WURTZEL

We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w...
ELIZABETH ESTY

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't le...
ELIZABETH WARREN

I'm a puzzle doer.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

A good night in is a series of documentaries.
ELIZABETH DEBICKI

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
ELIZABETH ARDEN

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Marriage is a great institution.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men g...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tom...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
ELIZABETH GASKELL

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
ELIZABETH FISHEL

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Education is not so important as people think.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it ha...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

We are minor in everything but our passions.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high...
ELIZABETH ESTY

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW

My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
ELIZABETH MARVEL

We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ...
ELIZABETH ESTY

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip...
ELIZABETH WARREN

I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exa...
ELIZABETH STROUT

I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin...
ELIZABETH WARREN

The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. ...
ELIZABETH EMKEN

I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un...
ELIZABETH REASER

The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right inf...
ELIZABETH WARREN

Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY

I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER

The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
ELIZABETH GASKELL

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN

Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster...
ELIZABETH II

If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY

perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY

You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY

Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome...
ELIZABETH HURLEY

Minds ripen at very different ages.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU

My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will...
ELIZABETH GILLIES

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

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