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" 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. "

" We need to diversify the people who are backstage and producing and marketing these shows. It's the limitations of these people that are holding Broadway back. "

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

" I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them. "

" Each play I write has its own unique origin story. "

" Silence is complicity. I believe that. "

" The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become. "

" I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway. "

" I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive. "

" I feel like 'Sweat' arrived on Broadway at the moment that it needed to. I feel like a commercial audience was not prepared for 'Ruined' or 'Intimate Apparel' for many different reasons. "

" My hobby is raising my children. "

" I think of myself as a healing artist. "

" Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be. "

" We use metaphors to express our own truths. "

" The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist. "

" 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.' "

" I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train. "

" The great thing about 'Vera Stark' is that my research was watching movies, screwball comedies, so I could literally sit back and relax. "

" There's never any ebb in human misery. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Replace judgment with curiosity. "

" Broadway is a closed ecosystem. "

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

" Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I would like there to be gender equity. I would like the Broadway season to reflect sort of the demographic of the country. "

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