Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

I'm just the same as any other kid, my mum gets me to the do the washing up and help with the chores - nothing much has changed there.

There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.

All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.

I look forward to doing everything, whether appearing on TV or walking the dog.

Adulting is hard.

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face, how you make your breakfast.

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

I still have to remind myself to brush my hair and look socially acceptable.

I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.

I have a lot of responsibilities, but I don't think I've grown up.

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls.

I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

Do you clean yourself before you take a bath?

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens.