Marsha Norman Quotes

Mama:...you can keep trying. You can get brave and try some more. You don't have to give up.Jessie: ...

Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noi...

Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but wor...

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have t...

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to...

How can I get up everyday knowing you had to kill yourself to make it stop hurting and I was here al...

No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me ...

I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: N...

...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it was...

Family is just accident. . . . They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be you...

What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children ...

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a...

Family is just accident, Jessie. It's nothing personal, hon. They don't mean to get on your nerves. ...

Mama: But something might happen. Something that might change everything. Who knows what it might be...