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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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Elizabeth Wurtzel
Age: 52 †
Born: 1967
Born: July 31
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
Autobiographer
Journalist
Lawyer
Writer
New York City
New York
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel
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Getting
Point
Much
Venue
Good
Venues
Feminism
Feminist
Across

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It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.
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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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How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus
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Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.
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Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.
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Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.
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I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.
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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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In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.
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But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.
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Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.
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In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
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And I want out of this life on drugs.
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I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.
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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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I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.
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That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
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In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
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No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to hitch up to, a fantasy of peace someday which seemed better than any life with all this noise in my head.
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Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
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