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

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Kate Clinton
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 9
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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.
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Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.
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Gay is when two girls get together, dance and have fun.
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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.
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When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
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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.
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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.
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Teaching is performance art.
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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.
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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
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Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'
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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.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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