Wendy Wasserstein - People Quotes

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I learn things from watching and listening to people. I'm not much of a reader; I'm slightly dyslexic.

Wendy Wasserstein

A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.

Wendy Wasserstein

The problem with writing plays is that everyone has an opinion. And you don't want those opinions. You want people to say I love you no matter what.

Wendy Wasserstein

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

Wendy Wasserstein

I had one Jewish friend there [at Mount Holyoke] from New Jersey who became a Marxist-Leninist gynecologist. How could you not love such a person? Those are the sorts of people you're supposed to meet in college.

Wendy Wasserstein