Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman
Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellmanwas an American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism. She famously was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activitiesat the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the American film industry caused a precipitous decline in her income during which time she had to work outside her chosen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth20 June 1905
CountryUnited States of America
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.
You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.
Fashions in sin change.
You can't recover from what you do not understand.
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.