“I sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is. Pink and white, as far as I’m concerned, have never looked quite so pink and white before.”Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac NationSource: Prozac Nation
“Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.”Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac NationSource: Prozac Nation
“The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.”Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac NationSource: Prozac Nation
“When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed.”Elizabeth Wurtzel
“As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.”Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac NationSource: Prozac Nation
“Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.”Elizabeth Wurtzel Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
“That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.”Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac NationSource: Prozac Nation
“Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does getting help with depression mean? Learning to keep away from your own mind?”Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac NationSource: Prozac Nation
“I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm”Elizabeth Wurtzel
“I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.”Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac NationSource: Prozac Nation