Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhlis an American playwright. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a distinguished American playwright in mid-career...
playwright woman women
Any woman who is a playwright is already a feminist.
people roles split
There's kind of a split between the roles people play and who they are in real life,
interesting people would-be
I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.
daughter mother father
A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.
stars lying hands
Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?
stars children believe
I think a person has to believe in something, or search out some kind of faith; otherwise life is empty, nothing. How can you live not knowing why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky... Either you know why you live, or it's all small, unnecessary bits.
flower being-sad just-being
There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.
childhood catharsis wounds
Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.
portraits good-enough paint
I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.
important sitting sitting-down
Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.
race world partners
We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.
thinking insane interviews
I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.
thinking males way
I would never be essentialist about sexuality and structure, but I do think there's a way in which this male-arc has been talked about as the only structure, and kind of a stand-in for even the word structure, instead of looking at other forms.