Kate Clinton Quotes

• 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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• John Paulk, the poster boy for 'ex-gays' was found in a gay bar in Washington. He said he was there to use the bathroom. But nobody thought to ask him for what.

  Kate Clinton

  Gay, Boys, Bars

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Kate Clinton

  Laughter, Thinking, Possibility Of Change

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

  Kate Clinton

  Science, Sheep, Needs

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• Gay is when two girls get together, dance and have fun.

  Kate Clinton

  Girl, Fun, Gay

  Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.19, Bywater Books

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• My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

  Kate Clinton

  Sports, Media, Style

  FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Feb 25, 2015

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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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• Considero un CD o una colección de comedias como un registro de lo que he estado haciendo, e intento envolverlo y empezar con material nuevo.

  Kate Clinton

  Eugenics, Cds, Trying

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• What goes for sex goes double for politics.

  Kate Clinton

  Sex, Double Standard

  FaceBook post by Kate Clinton from Feb 15, 2014

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