Playwright Quotes

When you destroy a population, once femicide happens, we're going to see the end of humanity, because I don't know how you sustain a future without vitalised women.
When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission.'
'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they can be as aggressive, violent, mercurial, and complex as men.
'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.
'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'
All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.
As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.
Chaos is my natural habitat. I write about chaotic situations and about people finding their way through the chaos, the hope that you can find your way.
Cornelia Parker has inspired a lot of my theatre work. Her art is about points of impact: it's poetic but with a strong literal story.
Eddie Marsan is just my favourite actor of all time. I love everything he's been in, so it's a dream come true to work with him.
Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.
Feminism isn't just for women. It's for men.
Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.
Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her.
Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history.
I always deeply admire people who can stay still in a room and wait for people to come to them.
I always felt a bit of a nerd, but my family gets me and my oddities. My kids and partner are way cooler than I am, but they let me in the room with them.
I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.
I am always running away from something.
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