Wendy Wasserstein Quotes

I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes it.

I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

I look for a man who respects my womanhood and doesn't make me feel like I have to be a stereotype. Like a housewife.

I think our whole family just never limited ourselves to what anybody expected of us based on our gender. I never grew up that way.

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.

I don't think it's a sad thing for a woman to not be in a relationship if she doesn't want to be. I feel like nobody looks at men who aren't in relationships and like, I don't know. It seems to be something looking at women like oh that's sad. But you have to look at what they want out of their lives.

When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability.

I like to think of myself as the girl that no one can get, that no one can keep in their hand.

The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

I'm a fashion designer. I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

I didn't want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

Freedom is a unique concept that everyone interprets differently.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

I appreciate individualism.

I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.