I met Elizabeth Wurtzel in the waiting room of a therapist’s office. The room had the requisite mid-century furniture and inoffensive art. Elizabeth was, from the start, equal parts brilliant and blunt.
“Why are you here,” she asked.What I didn’t say was that I was home from college because I had dropped out. I would ultimately go back to graduate, but not before beginning my career as a writer and producer, inspired in no small part by Elizabeth Wurtzel.So began a friendship that would last through most of my early and Elizabeth’s late twenties. She appeared in the first movie I wrote.
Elizabeth Wurtzel made it okay to talk about crazy. More than okay, cool. In her bestselling and divisive memoir about depression,, in which she wrote about “difficult” women, Elizabeth insisted—and ensured—that a conversation about women’s `mental health was also a conversation about women’s rights. Not since Sylvia Plath had a woman written so openly, so surgically, so unapologetically about this specific type of pain.
Twenty years later, now a mother, writer, and producer of many more films, I understand better what Elizabeth knew at a young age. I too have been called “crazy,” “difficult,” a “bitch” more times than I can count. I am no longer afraid of these words. At first, I was shocked. Outraged. Incredulous. These words are, of course, attacks. The verdict for whistleblowers stating inconvenient truths, or the sentence for women bearing unwelcome news, whom society would rather shut up.
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