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In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Elizabeth Wurtzel
Age: 52 †
Born: 1967
Born: July 31
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
Autobiographer
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New York City
New York
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel
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Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.
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Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.
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I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
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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 partly to blame.
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You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.
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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.
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That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
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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.
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Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's hard to say when it becomes a problem it sneaks up on you like a sun shower.
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My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
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Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel.
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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.
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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.
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My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!
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People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.
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Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.
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A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir.
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Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.
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Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.
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Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.
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