Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
ELIZABETH WURTZELAnd 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?
More Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes
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In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
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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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My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!
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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 start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.
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That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
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…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
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I sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is. Pink and white, as far as I’m concerned, have never looked quite so pink and white before.
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It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
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And I want out of this life on drugs.
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homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i’m always missing someone or someplace or something, i’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.
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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.
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I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.
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Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
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My life’s actually been quite dull; it’s not all that glamorous.
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