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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 one.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel
Age: 52 †
Born: 1967
Born: July 31
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
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New York City
New York
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel
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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.
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And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?
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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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Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.
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The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.
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I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.
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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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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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Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
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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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Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can't help it. I want to be adored.
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How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus
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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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So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.
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In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my 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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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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You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.
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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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Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.
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