Best quotes by Lynn Nottage on Women

Checkout quotes by Lynn Nottage on Women

• ‟ Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power.

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• ‟ In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.

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• ‟ I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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