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Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play The Heidi Chronicles.

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I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, “I can't get into this, it's all about girls. ” I thought to myself, “Well, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying. ”

Announced, Drama, Girl, Hamlet, School

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

Eye, Food, Loss, Ramble, Unfortunately, Whole

I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.

Intelligent, Make, Successful, Women, Write, Writing

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

Big, Children, Grownup, Mean, Responsibility

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

Down, Dream, Encouraging, Expectations, Graduation, Live

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Comedy, Hide, Pain, Real

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

Dealing, Humor, Sadness, Way

Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.

Causes, Commitment, Commitments, Happen, Plans, Things

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

Continuity, Enviable, Friends, Signatures, Tenacity, Woman

I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.

Girl, Hands, Like, Think, Thinking, World

One of the things about what. . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say, Well, I'm going to write this because I think that you're going to like this and therefore you'll buy a ticket for this.

Like, Plays, Taken, Thinking, Write, Writing

The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice. . . The arts' belief in potential gives each of us -- both audience and creator -- pride in our society's ability to nurture individuals.

Art, Arts, Gives, Pride, Voice

I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.

Curious, Interesting, Malcontents, Success

Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.

Family And Friends, Know, Littles, Note, Room, Years

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

Hate, Longed, Object, Scorn, Technology, Teenager

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

Begins, Believe, Birth, Shortly, Struggle

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

Asking, Deep, Funny, Mind, People, Tell

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

Bags, Death, Paper, Respect, Times

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.

Calm, Channel, Diet, Frustration, Mean, Mother

The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.

Husband, Opposite, Opposites, Used, Years

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