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“[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.”

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Kate Clinton is an American comedian known for her sharp wit and satirical humor. Born on November 9, 1947, she gained prominence in the comedy scene since the 1980s. Clinton is celebrated for her incisive commentary on political and social issues, often addressing themes such as gender, sexual orientation, and feminism in her work. more

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“In this political climate, people are so shut down to other ideas - I call it a hardening of the categories - that if you can get them to open up and laugh, there is a possibility of improvement, and a possibility of change. I think humor sneaks up on people, and before you know it, you're laughing at something you might not agree with.”

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Author:Kate Clinton

“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.”

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Author:Kate Clinton

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

Men Together Congress

Author:Kate Clinton

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

People Election Activist

Author:Kate Clinton

“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.”

Writing Years Littles Said Ends Eye Order Rich Written Feminism Visiting

Book:Don't Get Me Started

Source: Don't Get Me Started

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

Feminism Feminist Posts Arcs

Book:Don't Get Me Started

Source: Don't Get Me Started

“[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.”

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Book:Don't Get Me Started

Source: Don't Get Me Started

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

Lying Laughter Blow Tyranny

Book:What the L?

Source: What the L?

“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.”

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Author:Kate Clinton

“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.”

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Author:Kate Clinton