They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.
Elizabeth WurtzelI start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together โ the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night โ can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.
Elizabeth WurtzelWhy 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.
Elizabeth WurtzelI come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.
Elizabeth WurtzelThe desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the syndrome- it is called terminal uniqueness...we all refuse to be part of the crowd, to walk in the middle of the road in the safety of others. We all think were special. But the problem is, as I point out to Dr. Singer all the time, I actually am special.
Elizabeth Wurtzel