The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her hair again, that the repeated necessity of the act is too much trouble, that she wants to do it once and be done with it, seems like the book's true epiphany. You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended into philosophical heights.

In July 2010 Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote a proposal in the Brennan Law Center blog for abolishing bar exams. In the early 2000s Elizabeth Wurtzel applied to Yale Law School and was accepted despite the fact that "… Her combined LSAT score of 160 was as Elizabeth Wurtzel put it 'adequately bad' … 'Suffice it to say I was admitted for other reasons' Ms. In her words


Bibliography
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir (1994)
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women (1998)
More Now Again: A Memoir of Addiction (2001)
The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women (2004) (previously publiElizabeth Wurtzeld as Radical Sanity and The Bitch Rules).

She has a B. A. from Yale Law School.