Playwright Quotes

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.
I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.
I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands.
I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.
If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you'll be feeling what they're feeling. If you're separated, it's not a hard thing to do at all.
It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.
My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people calling out all around us, to connect with the beauty, poetry, the wildness.
One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.
People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.
People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.
Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.
The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn't killed our hearts. It's killed men's hearts. It's silenced them; it's cut them off.
Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.
When I wrote 'The Good Body,' I turned 40 and suddenly had this stomach. It seemed like the end of the world. Because I didn't value my body. I was constantly judging it, but I also didn't live in it.
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