Kate Clinton Quotes

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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

Kate Clinton

Gay, Lgbt, Mouths

FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Jun 24, 2014

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Of all sports, football seems to be the most sanctioned homosocial opportunity for straight men to be with each other, pat butts, struggle, strive, and take showers together. All that talk of tight ends and penetration. The reason there are face masks on those helmets is so that can't kiss each other.

Kate Clinton

Sports, Football, Struggle

Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.60, Bywater Books

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Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.

Kate Clinton

Political, Trying, Coming Out

FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from May 09, 2015

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Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

Kate Clinton

Feminist, Feminism, Arcs

Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.79, Bywater Books

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A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.

Kate Clinton

Morning, Thinking, Decision

FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Jun 26, 2013

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Gays have always been in the military. Alexander the Great was originally Alexander the Fabulous. A gay man invented C-rations. He claims he could never talk anyone into the cilantro garnish. Obviously, gays were not allowed to design the outfits, because we never would have stayed with the earth tones for so long.

Kate Clinton

Military, Gay, Men

Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.51, Bywater Books

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[On being lesbian:] One pointer: don't come out to your dad in a moving vehicle.

Kate Clinton

Dad, Moving, Sexuality

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Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

Kate Clinton

Funny, Mom, Good Things

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Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.

Kate Clinton

Laughter, Lying, Blow

Kate Clinton (2012). “What the L?”, p.1979, Bywater Books

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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

Kate Clinton

Years, Catholic, Given

FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Sep 23, 2015

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The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

Kate Clinton

Fonts, Administration, Size

Kate Clinton (2012). “What the L?”, Bywater Books

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As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.

Kate Clinton

Running, Presidential, Would Be

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Teaching is performance art.

Kate Clinton

Art, Teaching, Performances

Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.35, Bywater Books

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I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

Kate Clinton

Religious, Morning, Gay

FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from May 07, 2015

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When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.

Kate Clinton

Men, Together, Congress

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After the Reagan years, there were only three people of color in the Republican Party. Their slogan was 'Republicans - the Other White Meat.' George [H.] Bush tried to dispel the 'whites only' image of his party, often referring to his Mexican-American grandkids as 'the little brown ones over there,' and nominated Clarence Uncle Thomas to the Supreme Court.

Kate Clinton

Uncles, Party, Color

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[On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czarina it had something to do with a plaid couch.

Kate Clinton

House, Drug, Cracks

Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.65, Bywater Books

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Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language.

Kate Clinton

President, Matter, Styrofoam

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Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year, I had perfected my question and asked Adrienne Rich why there was so little written about women and humor. She looked at me right in the eye and said, 'You write it.' I took that as an order.

Kate Clinton

Eye, Writing, Years

Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.8, Bywater Books

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So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

Kate Clinton

People, Election, Activist

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In his second term, [Ronald] Reagan completed the work of his first term - the rich got really rich, everything was deregulated, advocacy programs were quashed, the Savings and Loan program was trashed, the deficit was tripled, unions were busted, Housing and Urban Developing was in shambles, banks were closing, the military got lots of new toys, the religious right was strong, and AIDS was ignored.

Kate Clinton

Religious, Strong, Military

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I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

Kate Clinton

Lines, Comedy, One Liner

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When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

Kate Clinton

Brother, Gay, Law

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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

Kate Clinton

Teacher, Kids, Looks

FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Jun 12, 2013

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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

Kate Clinton

Eugenics, Cds, Trying

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