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The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: American American Dream Cheap Consumer Coupled Courtesy Dream Else Goods Government Kept Labour Masses Poor Rising Slave Somewhere Somewhere Else Subsidies Up

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Some people just seem like they are up to no good. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict, and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Any Every Every Time First Good Good Student Got Hard High High School Just Like People Person School Seem Some Some People Straight Strict Student Studied Talking Time Trouble Unless Up Very Well Would You

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People 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 Wurtzel

Topics: Able Against Age Along Ambition Amount Anger Been Body Depression Fight Getting Great Had Her Incredible Moved People Poet Poor Produce Sensitive She Think Thirty Who Work

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Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Amount Been Effort Everything Exist Felt Good Great Happened Like Many Much Nation Needed Persistent Rejections Takes Things Through Wrong

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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.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Accomplished Anymore Back Because Being Competing Down Dramas Engaged Everything Life Looking Looking Back Lot More My Life Myself Now Plot Prove Relationships Satisfied Something Spent Than Things Trying Want Wanted

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I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is what I am. I did not choose writing - it chose me. And I believe it is necessarily that way. Anyone doing this for some other reason should not be.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Am Anyone Because Believe Choice Choose Chose Did Doing Me Meant Motivated Necessarily Other Reason Should Some Way Write Writing I Am I Believe

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I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: About Any Because Cheap Else Everyone Everyone Else Just Like Made More Nation Necessarily Necessary Now Pain People Pills Reading Relieve Scared Story Talk Tell Tender Them Took Write I Write

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I am not a nostalgic person.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

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I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes; that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Am Believe Disdain Due Heartbroken Live Means Men Money Street Supported Through Time Treated Wall Wall Street Where Who Women Women Are I Am I Believe

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

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 31st, 1967

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