BREITBART.COM - Playwright Wendy Wasserstein Dies: "'I find myself being more interested in my old friends and in deeper alliances,' Wasserstein said in an interview with Time last year. 'My 50s are also about being a mother and the joy of my daughter Lucy Jane and about loss. Real loss. My sister Sandra died of breast cancer at 60, so I know about things I didn't know about before. My father died two years ago, and then my friend (director) Gerald Gutierrez died. He was 53.
I think if you experience loss, you also on some level try to treasure joy. It can be as simple as going to the ballet or being with your child.' "