Latest Lizz Winstead Quotes from Interviews

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• I think that if you see that people are laughing, you know they haven't given up hope. You see that people are laughing because everyone has identified the collective hypocrisy of a law or of a politician who is crafting those laws. It's really nice to know that you can have a range of emotion on an issue. You can feel outrage, you can feel sadness, you can find humor, and all of those things are part of coping and dealing, and really, they give you an inspired way of moving forward as you fight.

  Lizz Winstead

  Nice, Moving, Sadness

  Source: www.mtv.com

• For me, it's important to elevate the hypocrisy with humor. Then you really are using the humor to elevate the problem, saying this is why it matters, and then saying we can combine the work together with laughing and being around joyful people and helping out. So the comedy sometimes can actually full-on expose the issue, but also it's a gathering tool. It serves a lot of purposes.

  Lizz Winstead

  People, Laughing, Hypocrisy

  Source: www.mtv.com

• I feel like the world has just become a polyester suit that's smoldering, melting, and at some point we have to figure out how to extinguish it.

  Lizz Winstead

  World

  Source: www.mtv.com

• Every era in history has needed, and will need, reproductive health services.

  Lizz Winstead

  Needs, Eras, Needed

  Source: www.elle.com

• You don't have to be famous. You just have to find your own coven of bad-asses that you trust and want to empower.

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  Bad Ass, Empowering, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

• The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence."

  Lizz Winstead

  Age, Facts, Abstinence

  Source: www.elle.com

• The second you realize you're not alienated, that makes you empowered.

  Lizz Winstead

  Realizing, Empowered

  Source: www.elle.com

• I'm a firm believer of wine.

  Lizz Winstead

  Wine, Firm, Believer

  Source: www.elle.com

• Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.

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  Talking, People, World

  Source: www.elle.com

• When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say "Oh my god." Talk about it.

  Lizz Winstead

  News Stories, People, Drink

  Source: www.elle.com

• Just talk about the issues that are impacting you and your friends.

  Lizz Winstead

  Issues

  Source: www.elle.com

• If you want to effect change, start small.

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  Want, Effects, Ifs

  Source: www.elle.com

• You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.

  Lizz Winstead

  Addresses, Problem, Solve

  Source: www.elle.com

• Having an enemy that is visible out in the daylight is a good thing.

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  Enemy, Daylight, Good Things

  Source: www.elle.com

• By laughing, it helps take our power back.

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  Laughing, Helping

  Source: www.elle.com

• North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.

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  Fighting, North Carolina, Amazing Places

  Source: www.elle.com

• I just think that also controlling women is a way to control the whole narrative. And so I think when you've oppressed a people for a really long time, you're terrified to give them any power because they may have some reflection of how horrible you've been and you're terrified of being treated that way. All that we want is to be our best selves, but that's hard for them to understand.

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  Reflection, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.glamour.com

• If you are very religious, and your religion teaches you that conception equals a baby, I don't know how I'm ever going to win you over to my side.

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  Religious, Baby, Winning

  Source: www.glamour.com

• To really start talking about a narrative where there's no good abortion or bad abortion; there's only the abortion that you need, I think that message is really resonating and changing the landscape of how we talk about it. We're really moving forward.

  Lizz Winstead

  Moving Forward, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I think the craziest thing I heard, and this guy's not even nominated, he's from Texas...he said there's no reason that women shouldn't carry a stillborn baby to term, and that it's an excuse to have an abortion if she doesn't want to. She should just let nature take its course from start to finish. Literally forcing birth of a fetus that died in the womb.

  Lizz Winstead

  Baby, Thinking, Texas

  Source: www.glamour.com

• It's really nice to see that, looking at all sides of the abortion issue - from the person who doesn't want to have kids so they're going to have an abortion and that's not traumatic for them, to somebody who loses a wanted pregnancy, to somebody who has complicated feelings because of their religion. We can talk about all of those complicated and individual stories and not feel like there's any one abortion story that's right or wrong.

  Lizz Winstead

  Nice, Pregnancy, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff [ abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights] very much because Donald Trump and the general election is sucking all the air out of the room - if people aren't paying attention to their state, they're certainly not paying attention to what's happening in other states.

  Lizz Winstead

  Rights, Air, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

• People who came to the clinics or came to the fundraiser knew what was happening in their state but didn't realize the profundity of what was happening all over the place. But the third thing [was] that at every single clinic I went to, somebody who worked there - it could have been the doctor, it could have been the receptionist - said, "Thank you for coming, no one ever comes." And it broke my heart...I've used these services, I've had an abortion, I got to be where I am because of access to making choices to have the life I wanted.

  Lizz Winstead

  Heart, Doctors, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

• What's blinking red on my radar is the fact that for people who prioritize abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights, those things are coming out of state legislatures, and some of the laws on reproduction stuff is coming out of city council, and so what's getting at me is the fact that there's just a fundamental lack of understanding that these laws are happening and being created by people who often won by ten votes in a midterm election.

  Lizz Winstead

  Law, Cities, Rights

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I did the Daily Show, and then I did Air America Radio, and I realized that I was lucky enough to have a job where I could get information to people. But those spaces weren't appropriate to then tell people what to do - they were corporate enterprises. My main job was to be funny, so I was trying to figure out, how can I combine all the things I love - comedy, feminism, calling out bullshit - into a creative space that other creative people would want to join in and help out?

  Lizz Winstead

  Jobs, Air, Creative Space

  Source: www.glamour.com