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

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Lizz Winstead
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 5
Comedian
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Alienated
Empowered
Realize
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We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.
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By laughing, it helps take our power back.
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Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.
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Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.
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We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.
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If you want to effect change, start small.
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Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.
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The fact is, there's no such thing as The Age of Abstinence.
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Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.
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In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the room and watch them taking in the people laughing. On some level, that comforted them.
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Nowadays everybody's a feminist - male, female, trans. Gender's so passé they don't even care anymore. They know what equal rights are, they know what it's about, and everybody is standing toe-to-toe strong about it and really fighting.
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One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.
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People being forced to get health care and the insurance companies making millions.
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Having an enemy that is visible out in the daylight is a good thing.
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Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.
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I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation.
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I'm Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a bathing cap for my cat.
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There's plenty of ways you can go and encourage people. And you should do that. But don't demonize what you do, I do, what other comics are doing, when you see people showing up and listening and responding because they've heard the messaging in the new kind of way.
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I'm not sure I'm okay with 2 guys gettin' married, but I don't wanna be a jerk about it.
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