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" In senior year at college, Paula Vogel was my playwriting teacher; she is the first person to introduce me to the notion that a woman could actually forge a career in the theatre. Up until then, the possibility seemed remote and inaccessible, as I had very few role models who directly touched my life. "

Lynn Nottage

Life

Teacher

Theatre

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" Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture. "

" I'm interested in people who are dwelling outside the mainstream. And very often, those people happen to be woman of color. "

" What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it. "

Lynn Nottage

Find

Hunt

" Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens. "

" When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other. "

" I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world. "

" I know what I'm trying to say, so I'm always open to learning how to say it. "

" It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say, 'It's someone else.' "

" It is such a joy to join a legacy of amazing female playwrights who have managed to break through the glass ceiling and reinvigorate the Broadway stage by bringing a fresh and necessary perspective. "

" There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation narratives. "

" It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people. "

" It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway. "

" A lot of the factories that had been the bedrock of many small cities were being shut down, which led me to investigate what I'm calling the 'de-industrial revolution.' "

Lynn Nottage

Small

Revolution

" Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living. "

" I'm a schizophrenic writer. "

Lynn Nottage

Writer

Schizophrenic

" My hobby is raising my children. "

" I need a release from whatever I'm writing. "

" The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration. "

Lynn Nottage

Bear

Sometimes

" I wouldn't say I see my work as having a political ideology. Lynn Nottage certainly has a political ideology. I think that the work is an extension of who I am, but I don't think that when I write the play I'm looking to push the audience one way or another. "

" In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity. "

" We use metaphors to express our own truths. "

" As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power of our stories, but with regards to Broadway and other commercial venues, we remain very much marginalized and excluded from that larger creative conversation. "

" Once working people discover that, collectively, we have more power than we do as individual silos, then we become an incredibly powerful force. But I think that there are powers that be that are invested in us remaining divided along racial lines, along economic lines. "

" We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore. "

" My fears about where theater is going - it's the Hollywood model, where people are chasing the almighty dollar and making commercial decisions based on nothing more than generating income for themselves and their theaters. "

" I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going. "

" I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process. "

" Replace judgment with curiosity. "

" Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power. "

Lynn Nottage

Power

Standing