Caryl Churchill

Film & Theater England 1938 100 quotes

Feminist innovator of Top Girls, Churchill's non-linear forms offered quotable critiques of patriarchy.

Quotes by Caryl Churchill

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? 2006

Information overload is the modern plague.

Love and Information 2012

Witch hunts never really end; they just change form.

Vinegar Tom 1976

The personal is political, but the political is personal too.

The Skriker 1994

Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.

Speech 1997

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Owners 1972

Life is a series of small choices that lead to big changes.

Icecream 1989

Revolution starts in the mind before it hits the streets.

Light Shining in Buckinghamshire 1976

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.

Cloud Nine 1979

Theatre is not a mirror; it's a hammer.

Interview 2005

We are all products of our time, but we can choose our echoes.

Mad Forest 1990

Money talks, but it lies.

Serious Money 1987

Silence is the most powerful scream.

Blue Heart 1997

Children are the future, but adults write the script.

Seven Jewish Children 2009

Nature is not our enemy; we are hers.

Escaped Alone 2016

Playwriting is like wrestling with invisible giants.

Here We Go 2015

Equality isn't given; it's taken.

Top Girls 1982

Dreams are the seeds of reality.

A Dream Play 2005

The world is a stage, but the script is unwritten.

Lives of the Great Poisoners 1991

Fear is the mind-killer.

The Skriker 1994