Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.
Wendy Wasserstein
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Wendy Wasserstein
Age: 55 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 18
Died: 2006
Died: January 30
Dramaturge
Playwright
Screenwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Hand
Girl
Hands
Bachelor
Much
Bachelors
Think
Singles
Thinking
Sees
Like
Limits
World
Certainly
More quotes by Wendy Wasserstein
anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.
Wendy Wasserstein
As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.
Wendy Wasserstein
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
Wendy Wasserstein
I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.
Wendy Wasserstein
I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.
Wendy Wasserstein
Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.
Wendy Wasserstein
Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.
Wendy Wasserstein
The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.
Wendy Wasserstein
Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.
Wendy Wasserstein
The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.
Wendy Wasserstein
The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.
Wendy Wasserstein
Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.
Wendy Wasserstein
A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.
Wendy Wasserstein
being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.
Wendy Wasserstein
Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.
Wendy Wasserstein
The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
Wendy Wasserstein
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.
Wendy Wasserstein
Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.
Wendy Wasserstein
I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.
Wendy Wasserstein
The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.
Wendy Wasserstein
