I have had the same friends since college, although as time has gone on, the daily nature of those relationships has changed, such that it is not daily at all. Elizabeth Wurtzel Read Quote
Women who have it all should try having nothing: I have no husband, no children, no real estate, no stocks, no bonds, no investments, no 401(k), no CDs, no IRAs, no emergency fund – I don’t even have a savings account. It’s not that I have not planned for the future; I have not planned for the present. Elizabeth Wurtzel Read Quote
Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don’t have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will. Elizabeth Wurtzel Read Quote
By never marrying, I ended up never divorcing, but I also failed to accumulate that brocade of civility and padlock of security – kids you do or don’t want, Tiffany silver you never use – that makes life complete. Elizabeth Wurtzel Read Quote
If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed’s work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless. Elizabeth Wurtzel Read Quote
I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty. Elizabeth Wurtzel Read Quote
There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl. Elizabeth Wurtzel Read Quote
Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it’s always been; but now, if you aren’t brilliant or beautiful or both, there isn’t much to do, because they can do it cheaper in Shanghai or Mumbai. Elizabeth Wurtzel Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
