Creativity isn't far away, or outside of you. It's an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your throat or hands or feet. So go for it. No one's watching. The payoff is magnificent. — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can use in other ways. I can create with them in my writing and my life, mix them up… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That is… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
“You are a single woman; you intend to remain one. You’ve acquired enough sexual experience to feel you belong to your times. You do… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
The world I grew up in had both a literal and mythological quality. We were on the borders of several worlds - the larger… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
Creativity isn't far away, or outside of you. It's an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your throat or… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
“the elite of our people” had, in his quiet way, escaped slavery. In 1841 Joseph Willson, dentist, of Philadelphia, published Sketches of the Higher… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever I did as a… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
We talk about how we think, believe, suspect Michael Jackson treats children. We don't talk about how WE treat child stars. Child stars are… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can use in… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
For better or worse, there is not a situation in one's daily life that does not have feminist subtext, superstructure, implications and one is… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according to what… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
