Kate Clinton Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.

  Kate Clinton

  Pride, Gay, People

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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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• Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.

  Kate Clinton

  Form, Produce, Masculine

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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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• 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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