Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes
Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.
Wurtzel, Elizabeth. Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women. Doubleday, 1998.
Her audiences were all familiar with the Adam & Eve Biblical narration.
Some men in the audience hissed as she took the podium.
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel was an American writer and journalist, 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 later life, Wurtzel worked briefly as an attorney before her death from breast cancer.