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Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes about past

American Writer July 31, 1967

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Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years. It was all still with me, the storage space in my brain crammed with vivid memories, packed and piled like photographs and old dresses in my grandmother’s bureau. I wasn’t just the madwoman in the attic — I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me. Elizabeth Wurtzel
It doesn’t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as perspective, which is supposed to put all past wrongs into their rightful and diminished place, that happy place where all the talk is of lessons learned and inner peace. No one will ever understand the potency of my memories, which are so solid and vivid that I don’t need a psychiatrist to tell me they are driving me crazy. My subconscious has not buried them, my... Elizabeth Wurtzel
I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Elizabeth Wurtzel quote: "I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic..."
I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me. Elizabeth Wurtzel

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