During the day, our souls gather their. . . impressions of us, how our lives feel. . . … - Marsha Norman

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Stay beautiful, keep it ugly

Marsha Norman

During the day, our souls gather their. . . impressions of us, how our lives feel. . . . Our spirits collect these impressions, keep them together, like wisps of smoke in a bag. Then, when we're asleep, our brains open up these bags of smoke. . . and take a look.

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

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There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

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We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of what it felt like to be alive in our time. That's what our job is as writers is to present that and create it. Our job as writers isn't to make as much money as we can. Our job is to create a record of this time. That's why if you leave out women and the stories of women, we failed at our mission. All of us. Men and women.

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We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.

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

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