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

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" If the Tony Awards want to remain relevant in the American theater conversation, then they need to embrace the true diversity of voices that populate the American theater. "

" In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family. "

" I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze. "

" 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. "

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

" Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics. "

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

Procrastination

" Saying, 'I'm going to create jobs' is great, but before you create jobs, something has to be offered to alleviate some of the suffering now. "

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

" It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way. "

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

" If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white. "

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

" For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories. "

" I try to be led by my curiosity. "

" I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative. "

" I am a storyteller by trade. "

" All of my plays are about people who have been marginalized... erased from the public record. "

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

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

" 'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.' "

" Broadway is a closed ecosystem. "

" There were not a lot of women in the theater department - it was really run by men, and so the message was that women can be onstage, but women can't really be backstage. "

" The stage is the last bastion of segregation. "

" The presence of a bed changes the way people interact. "

" I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire. "

" We use metaphors to express our own truths. "

" 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. "

" 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. "