I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. – Elizabeth Wurtzel
It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire peoples imagination, and all of them were very difficult women. – Elizabeth Wurtzel
My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me. – Elizabeth Wurtzel
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. – Elizabeth Wurtzel
To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. – Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898