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I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

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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
Well
Pathological
Fortunate
Honesty
Paid
Almost
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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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The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.
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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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Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.
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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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