"You gotta write women like… they can’t express ideas and attitudes that women of the feminist movement in the sixties made. Even though I’m aware of all that, you gotta be very careful if you’re trying to create a character like that, that they don’t come up with any greater understanding of themselves and their relationship to the world than women had at that time. As a matter of fact, all my characters are at the edge of that, they pushing them boundaries, they have more understanding. I had to cut back and say, “These are feminist ideas.” My mother was a feminist, though she wouldn’t express it that way. She don’t know nothing about no feminist woman and whatnot but she didn’t accept her place. She raised three daughters, and my sisters are the same way. So that’s where I get my women from. I grew up in a household with four women…"
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Pulitzer Prize winnersPlaywrights from the United StatesAfrican AmericansGuggenheim FellowsTony Award winners
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On how he writes female characters in “An Interview with August Wilson in The Believer magazine (November 1, 2004)
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August Wilson (April 27, 1945–October 2, 2005) was an American playwright.
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