"I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible."
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Wendy Wasserstein (1991) The Heidi chronicles and other plays, p. 60
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Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein (October 18 1950 – January 30 2006) was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.
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