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Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes


All I do is go to the movies.

Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

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

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

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 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.

I don't want any more vicissitudes, 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 start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

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

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.