on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.