Elizabeth Wurtzel
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel is an American writer 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 July 1967
CountryUnited States of America
depression pills mental-health
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent
jobs responsibility simple
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.
people problem terrible
One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.
past vivid-memories prozac-nation
I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.
fighting israel odds
Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.
feminist feminism literature
Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.
plastic dies
Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.
love depression knowing
Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.
fake-people hypocrisy sorrow
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.
country pride israel
Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.
depression character offering
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.
life-lesson giving age
Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.
passion imagination people
My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
imagination interesting people
It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.