Elizabeth Wurtzel

Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across. ”

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

I am not a nostalgic person. ”

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it. ”

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. ”

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. ”

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. ”

I've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I've spent a lot of my life being in it for the plot, and I don't do that anymore. I'm satisfied. I'm not competing with myself. I accomplished things I wanted to do, so everything I do now is because I want to, not because I'm trying to prove something. ”

I have had the same friends since college, although as time has gone on, the daily nature of those relationships has changed, such that it is not daily at all. ”

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me. ”