Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.
Elizabeth WurtzelI guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. But since the tendency toward inertia means that it's easier for me to stay alive than die, I guess that's how it's going to be, so I guess I should try to be happy.
Elizabeth WurtzelIt was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
Elizabeth WurtzelIโve been looking for a feeling like that everywhere I go. Iโve been waiting for someone to see all the good in me at every truck stop and intersection along the way. Iโve been waiting all my life for the moment to arrive when I can just stop. Stop looking
Elizabeth WurtzelPeople who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.
Elizabeth WurtzelBut day after day of depression, the kind that doesnโt seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here on this stoop in summer camp as if I were normal, day after day wearing down everybody who gets near me. My behavior seems, somehow, not acute enough for them to know what to do with me, though Iโm just enough of a mess to be driving everyone around me crazy.
Elizabeth Wurtzel