Paula Vogel > Quotes

“Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.”
― Paula Vogel

“I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater.”
― Paula Vogel, Indecent

“God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!”
― Paula Vogel, Indecent

“How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?”
― Paula Vogel, Indecent

“That was the last day I lived in my body. I retreated above the neck, and lived inside the "fire" in my head ever since.”
― Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive

“Rage is not attractive in a girl.”
― Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive

“I am very old, very cynical of the world, and I know it all. In short, I am seventeen years old, parking off a dark lane with a married man on an early summer night.”
― Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive

“As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater.”
― Paula Vogel, Indecent

“PLACE Warsaw, 1906, to Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1950s, and everywhere in between.”
― Paula Vogel, Indecent

“Do you know what a minyan is? It’s ten Jews in a circle accusing each other of anti-Semitism.”
― Paula Vogel, Indecent

“We have come to our Kaddish. “Wiegala” was written by Ilse Weber, a nurse at the Children’s Hospital at Theresienstadt. She sang this lullaby for the children in the wards.”
― Paula Vogel, Indecent

“Kugel! Rugelach, anyone?”
― Paula Vogel, Indecent

“The joys of days gone by”
― Paula Vogel, Indecent

“I got to hear the play of the genius Sholem Asch!”
― Paula Vogel, Indecent