Wendy Wasserstein
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"Wendy Wasserstein" was an American playwright. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play The Heidi Chronicles.

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The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

You're the unfortunate contradiction in terms -- a serious good person.

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.