Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Thinking, Long, Parent

• I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow believe that if I don't ask for it, everyone will forget about me: I will be a little kid sent off to sleep-away camp whose parents forget to meet her at the bus when she comes back in August. Or else I think people are nice to me only to be nice to me, that they feel sorry for me because I am such a loser- as if anyone could possibly be that generous.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Sorry, Nice, Believe

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Parent, Adults, Television

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.313, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

  Brother, Kids, Parenting

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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