Parenting Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

8 Parenting quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Elizabeth Wurtzel’s eight candid observations cut through the noise, offering raw and honest reflections on the complexities of raising kids. Her voice is unapologetically personal.

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I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for…

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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…

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“By the time the sixties hit their home bases, we the kids, were already born, and our parents found themselves stuck between…

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And what I thought, every time I thought about my father, every time his name came up, was quite simply: I WANT…

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

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

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“After a while, meaning and implication detach themselves from everything. One can be a father and assume no obligations, it follows that…

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Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that…

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

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I myself am hell.

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“...if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know. There is…

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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…

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Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul…

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

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What I would do to be Alice climbing through the looking glass, taking one of those pills that makes you small ... so small.…

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

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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…

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

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I'm lost in a loneliness that feels like forever ... like a solitude that never goes away.

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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-…

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“When you do drugs, you count like a chemist: The numbers are wild, the formulas are easy. Then, when you try to get clean,…

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

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