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In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Elizabeth Wurtzel
writer, lawyer, autobiographer, journalist
1967 – 2020
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel was an American writer, journalist, and lawyer known for the confessional memoir Prozac Nation, which she published at the age of 27. Her work often focused on chronicling her personal struggles with depression, addiction, career, and relationships. Wurtzel's work drove a boom in confessional writing and the personal memoir genre during the 1990s, and she was viewed as a voice of Generation X. In her later life, Wurtzel worked briefly as an attorney before her death from breast cancer.
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My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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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.
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Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel