298 Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

The whole offensive culture of dieting seems invented as yet another way to make women smaller and weaker – to make us become less, quite literally. The starving self symbolizes a diminishing person, and really we ought to strive to be more, to have more strength and muscle and inner resolve – which is what we get from working out or playing a sport, and what we lose when we live in hunger.

And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren’t we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

It is hard to get back what is lost. It is more difficult still to begin anew.

I am sick of the girl who cries ‘wolf’ all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm.

That’s what it’s like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts – blizzards, cyclones.

You know you’ve completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

Years of depression have robbed me of that – well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

The most likely person to kill you is your wife, but that probably won’t happen. What probably will happen is a million little betrayals of varying degrees of pain, brought on by people you love, the only ones who really can hurt you.