Death
On Easter Sunday, April 4, 1999, Lucille Lortel, the "Queen of Off-Broadway" died at age 98, after a short hospitalization at New York hospital. She was buried in Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hasting On Hudson, NY among her friends and fellow theatre luminaries. Her legacy can best be summed up by the epitaph on her tombstone:
LUCILLE LORTEL
Theatrical pioneer, patron of the arts, Loving mentor to all who worked with her
HER THEATRES WERE HER CHILDREN
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.”
—Eugène Ionesco (b. 1912)
“In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman’s premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, “until death doth part.””
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)