Wendy Wasserstein - Play Quotes

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When I see the play [The Sisters Rosensweig], I feel I'm seeing a Broadway play in 1958, or what I wish those plays had been. I remember going to them and thinking, I really like this but where are the girls?

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

Feminism has affected me more in my writing than in a specifically political way. Sitting down to write a play that has three parts for women over forty, I think, is political.

Wendy Wasserstein

Anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.

Wendy Wasserstein