So many people, whether they knew her or not, felt somehow connected to her. If you went out with her to a restaurant in New York or anywhere in the country — because her plays were done all over the country — it was like going out with a rock star: people coming up to her and saying, 'How much your work meant to me. I feel like I have seen my life through your eyes.

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I feel as if my heart and mind stopped on Jan. 30 in room 1917 of Memorial Hospital.

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If you said that Wendy was a feminist, she would say, 'I'm a humanist.' That (line)'s actually in The Heidi Chronicles . ... She managed to write from a very specific point of view for a very wide audience. And she had a wide variety of interests; she was committed in many areas.

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