92 Quotes by Sarah Ruhl

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one’s own aesthetic.

The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love.

It’s a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

No one likes kids. We say we do, and we take pictures of pregnant women for People Magazine, but really they’re commodities – we hate them around, we hate them on airplanes, we consider them a grand imposition and almost a style choice.

It’s this feeling that you want to love strangers, that you want to kiss the man at the post office, or the woman at the dry cleaners – you want to wrap you arms around life, life itself, but you can’t and this feeling wells up in you, and there is nowhere to put this great happiness – and you’re floating – and then you fall down and become unbearably sad. And you have to go lie down on the couch.

It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time – for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they’re raising children.

I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure in the task. If you don’t, you will drive yourself off a cliff because your fortunes will rise and fall, and if you identify too closely with that, you really will go insane.

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.

You’re very comforting, I don’t know why. You’re like a very small casserole – has anyone ever told you that?