Prozac Nation Quotes
Elizabeth: Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.
Movie: Prozac Nation
Elizabeth: You know, if you're going to suggest therapy, don't. I'm living proof it doesn't work.
Movie: Prozac Nation
Elizabeth: Ever since I was a little kid, my mum and I hang out together. I didn't fit in with most kids at schools. They thought I was strange, so they made me feel like a stranger. And my mother took advantage of it from an early age, throwing me into plays, spelling bees, studying, writing, museums, concerts, and even more writing. She convinced me this would lead to the Holy Grail: Harvard. A place where I would finally be surrounded by people I had something in common with.
Movie: Prozac Nation
Elizabeth: If only my life could be more like the movies.I want an angel to sweep down to me like it does to Jimmy Stewart in it's a wonderful life and talk me out of suicide,I've always waited for that one moment of truth to set me free and change my life forever,but he wont come,it doesnt happen that way.All the drugs,all the therapy,fights,anger,guilt,rave,suicidal thoughts,all of thta was part of some slow recovery process,the same way i went down i came back up,gradually... and then suddenly.The pills werent the cure at all,God knows,but they gave me breathing space which allowed me to start writing again only this time it was not as if my life deppended on it.
Movie: Prozac Nation
Mrs. Wurtzel: Why do you do this to me?
Elizabeth: [at the top of her lungs] 'Cause i'm not your goddamned monkey!
Elizabeth: [at the top of her lungs] 'Cause i'm not your goddamned monkey!
Movie: Prozac Nation