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

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.

No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.

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

When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

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