"No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer."

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Wendy Wasserstein

#Mother Quotes #Women Quotes #Successful Quotes

“Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.”
“Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust.”
“What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.”
“Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic.”
“The old boy network is still too strong in Canadian business. A visit to the Toronto clubs at lunch stands in about as great a contrast to the multicultural, multiracial subway underneath as can be humanly imagined. This is not healthy.”
“I don't know where this is coming from. What's wrong with my hair? I'm like 'I just made history and people are focused on my hair?' It can be bald or short, it doesn't matter about my hair. Nothing is going to change. I'm going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well just stop talking about it.”
“In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.”
“Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.”

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