Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman
Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellmanwas an American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism. She famously was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activitiesat the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the American film industry caused a precipitous decline in her income during which time she had to work outside her chosen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth20 June 1905
CountryUnited States of America
Lillian Hellman quotes about
Success and failure are not true op-posites and they're not even in the same class; they're not even a couch and a chair.
God forgives those who invent what they need.
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.
A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.
One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.