Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

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

“Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.”

“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.”

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

“Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.”

“I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.”

“I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.”

“The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.”

“I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.”