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

In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.

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.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

Success is always something that you have to recover from.