Author Life World Being poet Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best. - Jessica Hagedorn
Writing Love I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic. - Jessica Hagedorn
Sound Death There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death. - Jessica Hagedorn
Joy Sense End Want People But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live. - Jessica Hagedorn
Feeling Being I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough. - Jessica Hagedorn
Society I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. - Jessica Hagedorn
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. - Anna Quindlen
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. - Francis Bacon
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. - Jack Herer