Lizz Winstead Quotes

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• If you're a woman and you've decided to step in front of people on any kind of platform and say that you have feelings about anything, you are committing a radical act. People view it as such, so you might as well actually commit a radical act.

  Lizz Winstead

  Views, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Lizz Winstead

  Mother, Cat, Unpacking

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• You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.

  Lizz Winstead

  Addresses, Problem, Solve

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say "Oh my god." Talk about it.

  Lizz Winstead

  News Stories, People, Drink

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My curiosity is not a choice. It's always been part of me. I think of it as a vital organ.

  Lizz Winstead

  Thinking, Choices, Curiosity

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.34, Penguin

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• Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

  Lizz Winstead

  Thinking About You, People, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did the Daily Show, and then I did Air America Radio, and I realized that I was lucky enough to have a job where I could get information to people. But those spaces weren't appropriate to then tell people what to do - they were corporate enterprises. My main job was to be funny, so I was trying to figure out, how can I combine all the things I love - comedy, feminism, calling out bullshit - into a creative space that other creative people would want to join in and help out?

  Lizz Winstead

  Jobs, Air, Creative Space

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If you want to effect change, start small.

  Lizz Winstead

  Want, Effects, Ifs

  Source: www.elle.com

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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.

  Lizz Winstead

  Strong, Fighting, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Lizz Winstead

  Guy, Married, Jerk

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• It's always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer.

  Lizz Winstead

  Fun, Voice, Admire

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think that if you see that people are laughing, you know they haven't given up hope. You see that people are laughing because everyone has identified the collective hypocrisy of a law or of a politician who is crafting those laws. It's really nice to know that you can have a range of emotion on an issue. You can feel outrage, you can feel sadness, you can find humor, and all of those things are part of coping and dealing, and really, they give you an inspired way of moving forward as you fight.

  Lizz Winstead

  Nice, Moving, Sadness

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

  Lizz Winstead

  Confidence, Self, What If

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.46, Penguin

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• Nebraska is proof that hell is full and the dead are walking the earth.

  Lizz Winstead

  Nebraska, Earth, Hell

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.66, Penguin

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• This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives.

  Lizz Winstead

  Stupid, Oklahoma, Target

  "‘Daily Show’ co-creator Lizz Winstead sparks outrage with Oklahoma tornado joke about conservatives". www.foxnews.com. May 21, 2013.

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• You don't have to be famous. You just have to find your own coven of bad-asses that you trust and want to empower.

  Lizz Winstead

  Bad Ass, Empowering, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.

  Lizz Winstead

  Opportunity, Lucky, Whole Life

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• We live in a nation where corporations are people.

  Lizz Winstead

  People, Corporations, Nations

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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.

  Lizz Winstead

  Baby, School, Catholic

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.25, Penguin

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

  Lizz Winstead

  Realizing, Empowered

  Source: www.elle.com

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• And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate.

  Lizz Winstead

  Pregnancy, Home, Thinking

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.51, Penguin

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• The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

  Lizz Winstead

  Political, Lines, Matter

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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.

  Lizz Winstead

  Baby, Differences, People

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.14, Penguin

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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.

  Lizz Winstead

  Political, Insane, Elements

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• Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.

  Lizz Winstead

  Talking, People, World

  Source: www.elle.com

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