Radio Interviewer:
Perhaps you can tell a little more about these women. Who are they?

Jane Chambers:
Well, they're not based on any very specific characters. As a matter of fact someone once said they're the Eight Faces of Jane, which is me the playwright, eight schizophrenic sides of my personality.

-- 1981 Radio interview
on Last Summer at Bluefish Cove

Jane Chambers was one of the very first writers to depict the love of woman for woman as an ordinary, non-spectacular way of being human.

-- Nancy Dean, 1995