. . . the cruel part is that, to let the play live, you have to surrender control and let your characters go. You have to let them stumble, fall into…

- Tina Howe

The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.

- Tina Howe

There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness.

- Tina Howe

[I was] particularly eager to give voice to the women of my mother's place and generation, who grew up in turn-of-the-century, privileged New England…

- Tina Howe