Library Guides: Online Plays and Monologues: Women's Monologues

Monologues come from The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook by Ed Hooks which also gives a synopsis of each play and the start and stop lines of the monologue.
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Title	Author	Start line of monologue

Amen Corner	James Baldwin	David, I'm older than you.
Anna Christie	Eugene O'Neill	It was one of them cousins
Another Antigone	A.R. Gurney	What's a job anyway?
Approaching Zanzibar	Tina Howe	I was on a train somewhere between Paris
Bad Habits	Terrence McNally	His hobby is tropical fish.
Blue Window	Craig Lucas	When I first came to New York?
Buck	Ronald Ribman	Do you think I could be an actress.
Burn This	Lanford Wilson	In about eight seconds I know they
Candida	George Bernard Shaw	I give myself to the weaker of the two.
Chapter Two	Neil Simon	You know what you want better than me, George.
Cheaters	Michael Jacobs	I was remembering the first time I ever went
Coastal Disturbances	Tina Howe	You know what I read in a book?
Colored Museum	George Wolfe	Yoho! Party! Party!
Colored Museum	George Wolfe	Yes, it's me!
Come Back, Little Sheba	William Inge	You know what, Doc?
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea	John Patrick Shanley	There's boats right up by Westchester Square.
Day in the Death of Joe Egg	Peter Nichols	I join in these jokes to please him.
Death and the Maiden	Ariel Dorfman	When I heard his voice
Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller	I don't say he's a great man.
Delicate Balance	Edward Albee	Thank you, Claire
Division Street	Steve Tesich	We met in Chicago
Dream Girl	Elmer Rice	All right, Mother.
Eccentricities of a Nightingale	Tennessee Williams	I always say too much or say too little.
Eccentricities of a Nightingale	Tennessee Williams	Oh, how wise and superior you are.
Eccentricities of a Nightingale	Tennessee Williams	Father, I do all I can.
Eccentricities of a Nightingale	Tennessee Williams	Sit down and I'll point out
Educating Rita	Willy Russell	I'm all right with you,
Empress of China	Ruth Wolff	White Christians!
Empress of China	Ruth Wolff	When I first came to the palace

Fences	August Wilson	I been standing with you!
Fences	August Wilson	You can't be nobody but who you are.
FOB	David Hwang	Yeah, It's tough trying to live in Chinatown.
Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune	Terrence McNall	I've always been very suspicious
Getting Out	Marsha Norman	So, there was this little kid, see
Gingerbread Lady	Niel Simon	Damn you, Evy.
Gingerbread Lady	Niel Simon	Martin has grown accustomed to my face
Glass Managerie	Tennessee Williams	Now, Laura, Just look at your mother.
Heidi Chronicles	Wendhy Wasserstein	Hello, Hello.
Hello and Goodbye	Athol Fugard	What did you know about her?
House of Blue Leaves	John Guare	Miss Henshaw's saving us this divine place
House of Blue Leaves	John Guare	Oooo, it’s freezing out there.
Hurlyburly	David Rabe	I'm telling this guy on the phone that drugs are
I Stand Before You Naked	Joyce Carol Oates	This boy named Kit
I Stand Before You Naked	Joyce Carol Oates	One of you's to blame
In the Boom Boom Room	David Rabe	Listen to me what I'm saying
In the Boom Boom Room	David Rabe	All through my sophomore year
Joe Turner's Come and Gone	August Wilson	If I was you, Mattie
Joe Turner's Come and Gone	August Wilson	I don't trust none of these men
Keely and Du	Jane Martin	I can't raise this baby.
Keely and Du	Jane Martin	Hey, I didn't choose to have this baby
Lark	Jean Anouilh	And I will wear castoff brocade
Lark	Jean Anouilh	Then I'll start at the beginning
Last of the Red Hot Lovers	Neil Simon	You hypocrite!
Laughing Wild	Christopher Durang	I want to talk to you about life.
Les Belles Soeurs	Michel Tremblay	It's easy to judge people.
Les Belles Soeurs	Michel Tremblay	The first time I saw him I thought he was ugly.
Les Belles Soeurs	Michel Tremblay	Life is life and no Goddamn Frenchmen ever
Lips Together, Teeth Apart	Terence McNally	Before I go into my six-hour exile
Little Foxes	Lillian Hellman	Mama used to give me elderberry wine

Long Days Journey Into Night	Eugene O'Neill	If you think Mr. Tyrone is handsome now
Look Homeward, Angel	Ketti Frings	Mrs. Gant, I am not marrying Eugene
Lost in Yonkers	Neil Simon	You think I can't have healthy babies
Lovers and Other Strangers	Renee Taylor	And Joan, of all the pictures in your wedding album
Ludlow Fair	Lanford Wilson	I don't know why you should worry
Marco Polo Sings a Solo	John Guare	I really started cookin when I was eight.
Matchmaker	Thornton Wilder	Ephraim Levi, I'm going to get married again.
Mrs. Warren's Profession	George Bernard Shaw	Vivie, listen to me. You don't understand.
Nature and Purpose of the Universe	Christopher Durang	Death comes to us all, my brothers
Nature and Purpose of the Universe	Christopher Durang	You phony liar. Your oldest son pushes dope
Night of the Iguana	Tennessee Williams	You see, in my profession I have to look hard
Oleanna	David Mamet	The issue here is not what I 'feel.'
Otherwise Engaged	Simon Gray	You know the most insulting thing,
Painting Churches	Tina Howe	If you want to paint us so badly,
Play Memory	Joanna Glass	I remember my first time I knew I loved you
Porch	Jeffrey Sweet	My father's daughter. That sounds so possessive.
Scenes from American Life	A.R. Gurney	Before we begin, you probably want to know, don't you,
Scenes from American Life	A.R. Gurney	Um. I want to make three quick points about this whiole business
Sea Gull	Anton Chekhov	Why did you say you kiss the ground I walk on?
Sea Horse	Edward Moore	I was sitting on the pier one day, doing my homework.
Shirley Valentine	Willy Russell	Guess where I'm goin?
Shirley Valentine	Willy Russell	Do you remember her, wall? Remember Shirley Valentine?
Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window	Lorraine Hansberry	You don't know what it's like though.
Six Degrees of Separation	John Guare	Can you believe it?
Still Life	Emily Mann	I hate to cook. Probably because he likes to cook.
Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams	He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl.
Subject was Roses	Frank Gilroy	I think it was his energy

Summer and Smoke	Tennessee Williams	But I don't want to be talked to like some incurably sick patient
Summer and Smoke	Tennessee Williams	I'm afraid you and I move in different circles.
Sweet Bird of Youth	Tennessee Williams	You are trembling and sweating
Sweet Bird of Youth	Tennessee Williams	Stars in retirement sometimes give acting lessons.
Talking with …	Jane Martin	Fifteen minutes
Talking with …	Jane Martin	Clear Glass Marbles
Talking with …	Jane Martin	Scraps
Talking with …	Jane Martin	Marks
Talking with …	Jane Martin	French Fries
Talking with …	Jane Martin	Dragons
Talking with …	Jane Martin	Handler
Talking with …	Jane Martin	Lamps
Talking with …	Jane Martin	Twirler
Talking with …	Jane Martin	Rodeo
Talking with …	Jane Martin	Audition
Tenth Man	Paddy Chayefsky	I'm being institutionalized again.
Top Girls	Caryl Churchill	I too was often in embarrassing situations,
Touch of the Poet	Eugene O'Neill	Don't tell me not to worry.
Tribute	Bernard Slade	Okay, maybe it's about time I introduced myself.
Vieux Carre	Tennessee Williams	I know what I said. I said a buyer to look at my illustrations,
Vital Signs	Jane Martin	I sat in the chair by the bed watching him sleep
Vital Signs	Jane Martin	Suitable? No actually that doesn't seem suitable.
Waiting for the Parade	John Murrell	When Billy and I were first married.
Wash	Philip Kan Gotanda	here are things you kids don't know.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf	Edward Albee	You're all flops.
Woolgatherer	William Mastrosimone	You swear this is your last run.
Woolgatherer	William Mastrosimone	You may think it's funny but I was the last one to see them last summer.