Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes - page 2

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)
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. View quote
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That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful. View quote
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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. View quote
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...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. View quote
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If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking. View quote
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How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me. View quote
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it's the people you are close to, the ones who love you, theo nes who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul- to them, it is obvious that something is wrong or missing. your heart and soul are missing. they feel it. it hurts them. it kills them. View quote
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Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter. (Elizabeth Wurtzel)
Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I'd like. View quote
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They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.' But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind? View quote
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The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. View quote
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Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac. View quote
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Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead. View quote
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The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity. View quote
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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. View quote
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In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them. View quote
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