Cross the Threshold

Empowering Women

The Things That We Do

Murasaki Books

"Herstory"

Living and Writing on America's Left Coast

 


"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should
be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something
of a dirty joke.  That's their natural and first weapon.  She will
need her sisterhood." --
Gloria Steinem

Empowering Women
Left Coast Women exists to empower, preserve, and uphold women writers, in particular playwrights, living on the West Coast of the United States of America.

  • We believe that women writers must not be discouraged by gender- or race-based inequities in theatrical production or publication.
  • We also believe that region of origin or residence should never be a dynamic in measuring the quality of one's art or the worlds to which it may travel.
  • In essence, we believe that women writers should be motivated by all these factors to persist in artistic creation and to strive for excellence.






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"The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself
as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way." -- Betty Friedan