I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I have had the same friends since college, although as time has gone on, the daily nature of those relationships has changed,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“And then, if I die anytime soon, at least they'll be able to say that I led a productive life and did… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Some people just seem like they are up to no good. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“...if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know.… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
And what I thought, every time I thought about my father, every time his name came up, was quite simply: I WANT… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I’ve been looking for a feeling like that everywhere I go. I’ve been waiting for someone to see all the good in… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“That’s the thing I want to make clear about depression: It’s got nothing at all to do with life. In the course… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“By the time the sixties hit their home bases, we the kids, were already born, and our parents found themselves stuck between… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Forget about the scant hours in her brief life when Sylvia Plath was able to produce the works in Ariel. Forget about… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“I was, after the breakup, what you call a complete wreck. For the first time in my life, my pain had a… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“The atypically depressed are more likely to be the walking wounded, people like me who are quite functional, whose lives proceed almost… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Because, frankly, I have a tough time feeling that feminism has done a damn bit of good if I can't be the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Hemingway has his classic moment in "The Sun Also Rises" when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Sometimes someone will be standing in front of me, and already I feel him walking away. It's only a matter of time,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I am so tired of the girl in the infirmary, I am so sick of the girl who cries wolf all the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Some catastrophic moments invite clarity, explode in split moments: You smash your hand through a windowpane and then there is blood and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“We try, we struggle, all the time to find words to express our love. The quality, the quantity, certain that no two… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“...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… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
What I would do to be Alice climbing through the looking glass, taking one of those pills that makes you small ... so small.… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like its all perfectly normal in the morning. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm lost in a loneliness that feels like forever ... like a solitude that never goes away. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
