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Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“If a woman is good enough to be good, she is also good enough to be bad.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Tagged: Bitch
“The world does not care if you write or not, so to be successful you have to be so good that your work is better than all the other available distractions.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Elizabeth Wurtzel: "Nothing's Off The Record"
Tagged: How to be a writer, Writing, Attention, Time
“Talented people do not need atmosphere to work. They do not need inspiration. They just need time and payment. They need to treat what they do like a job. They need to show up.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood
Tagged: How To Write, Writers, Show Up, Work Ethic, How To Succeed
“It’s about how nice it must be to just decide I will not be nice, I am never sorry, I have no regrets: what is before me belongs to me.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Tagged: Regrets, No Regrets
“Somehow, society convinces us that we are nothing without a man, and simultaneously feeds us subliminal messages that make us feel that no man in his right mind would really want us.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Tagged: Societal Norms, Break The Norm, Men
“Talent is the ability to make something that is more stunning than human presence.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Creatocracy
Tagged: Magic, Art, Creation
“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Tagged: Depression, Survival, Suffering
“Copyright has always been the best filter for talent, because if it was good, you knew it because you got paid. That is the best formula. Anything else is noise.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood
Tagged: Capitalism, Cultural Elitism vs. Democratic Consumerism, Art and Culture, Art + Commerce, Money/Art, How To Judge Things, Copyright
“Bad girls understand that there is no point in being good and suffering in silence. What good has good ever done?”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Tagged: Bad Girls
“We decide to learn to be the way men want us to be, rather than insisting they change to suit us.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Tagged: Gender Relations
“The American flag is the most exquisite and artistic of all the banners of all the nations.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood
Tagged: First Line of Books, America, The United States, USA, American Flag, Flags, first lines of books
“Ever since it has been inadvertent brilliance, this country has been one big huge accident, slouching toward perfection.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood
Tagged: The United States, America, Beautiful Accidents, Perfectly Psycho America
“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.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Tagged: Depression, Survival, humans
“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Tagged: Mental Illness, Depression, Pills, cures
“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Tagged: Life, Pain, purpose
“Expression is a miracle. Now try writing it down. Now try making it gorgeous. Now try making it perfect. An idea loses a lot and gains more as it hitchhikes its way through the world. But if it is expressed with the grace of a good cocktail at the end of a long and tiresome day, somebody did something right.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Creatocracy: How the Constitution Invented Hollywood
Tagged: Creative Expression, Making Ideas Real
“The best filter isn’t BuzzFeed, or The Atlantic, or whatever. The best filter is money. That is how you say “I love you.” This is America. This is a capitalist country. We say “I’m sorry” with money. We say “I love you” with money.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Elizabeth Wurtzel: "Nothing's Off The Record"
Tagged: Money, Capitalism, Art, Writing, Good writing, How to be a writer, My aesthetic
“I think, quite frankly, that the world simply does not care for the complicated girls, the ones who seem too dark, too deep, too vibrant, too opinionated, the ones who are so intriguing that new men fall in love with them every day, at every meal where there’s a waiter, in every taxi and on every train they board, in any instance where someone can get to know them just a little bit, just enough to get completely gone. But most men in the end don’t quite have the stomach for that much person.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Tagged: Complicated, Bad Girls
“Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Tagged: Friends, Depression, Understanding, Love
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