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Marsha Norman Quotes: "Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are."

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue."

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.




Marsha Norman Quotes: "Write about the thing that frightens you most."

Write about the thing that frightens you most.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself."

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.




Marsha Norman Quotes: "I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career."

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "Success is always something that you have to recover from."

Success is always something that you have to recover from.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write."

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.




Marsha Norman Quotes: "The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart."

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it."

I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me."

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it."

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used."

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.




Marsha Norman Quotes: "At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself."

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway."

When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals."

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with."

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?"

What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?



Marsha Norman Quotes: "If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright."

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "I feel that I speak the musical language."

I feel that I speak the musical language.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts."

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered."

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'"

What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'



Marsha Norman Quotes: "Family is just accident. . . . They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family they just are."

Family is just accident. . . . They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family they just are.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it."

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know."

...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are."

Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.



Marsha Norman Quotes: "Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you."

Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.