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The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

Wendy Wasserstein
Hate, Teenager, Technology
Wendy Wasserstein (1990). “Bachelor Girls”, Alfred A. Knopf

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

Wendy Wasserstein
Respect, Bags, Paper
Wendy Wasserstein (1978). “Uncommon Women and Others”, p.29, Dramatists Play Service Inc

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

Wendy Wasserstein
Humor, Sadness, Way

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

Wendy Wasserstein
Work, Way, Ambiguous
Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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

Wendy Wasserstein
Mother, Genius, Christmas Eve

I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.

Wendy Wasserstein
Success, Interesting, Curious

One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say, Well, I'm going to write this because I think that you're going to like this and therefore you'll buy a ticket for this.

Wendy Wasserstein
Taken, Writing, Thinking

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