Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

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

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  Tags in Person, Trouble

• 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.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Topics in Life

  Tags in People, World

• Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  Tags in Self, Depression

• 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.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Trouble, Person

• Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  Tags in United States, Issue

• Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?… I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Hypocrisy

• You don’t even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  Tags in Perfectly, Miserable

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

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  Tags in Women

Elizabeth Wurtzel (28)

Birth:	31st July, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Lawyer, Writer

About

Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel was born in New York City, USA. She is an American writer, lawyer, and journalist, known for publishing her best-selling memoir Prozac Nation, at the age of 26. She holds a BA in comparative literature from Harvard College and a JD from Yale Law School. She received the 1986 Rolling Stone College Journalism Award. While an undergraduate at Harvard College, she wrote for The Harvard Crimson and The Dallas Morning News. She writes regularly for The Wall Street Journal. She wrote an article in Elle magazine about societal pressures related to aging. She has written several books include: Prozac Nation, Bitch, More, Now, Again, The Secret of Life, The Bitch Rules, and Creatocracy.

 

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