The Secret of Life Quotes

“Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through...”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Radical Sanity : Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women

“Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Radical Sanity: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women

“The whole offensive culture of dieting seems invented as yet another way to make women smaller and weaker - to make us become less, quite literally. The starving self symbolizes a diminishing person, and really we ought to strive to be more, to have more strength and muscle and inner resolve - which is what we get from working out or playing a sport, and what we lose when we live in hunger.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for the Uncommon Woman

“I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it’s hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's just too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for the Uncommon Woman

“A woman who can handle a dog is pretty damn cool. If she can take care of such a demanding creature, most likely she can take pretty good care of herself.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for the Uncommon Woman