Bess Wohl The playwright behind Liberation on the legacy of second-wave feminism, her mother's role in it, and the state of women's rights today

Liberation has been called the best play on Broadway this season. What made you want to write it? Because my mom worked at Ms., I grew up steeped in the ideas of second-wave feminism and women's liberation.

- - ESTHER ZUCKERMAN

I loved sitting on the floor of her office under a giant Wonder Woman poster while I could hear her clacking away. As I got older, I started to come into contact with those ideas in a personal way. I got married, had children, tried to have a career. All of a sudden, I started to experiment with these ideas in my own life: “What was wrong, what was left out? Are these practical?”