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Kate Clinton (born November 9, 1947) is an American comedian specializing in political commentary from a gay/lesbian point of view.

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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

Catholic, Given, Raised, Years

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.

Eye, Order, Rich, Thought, Writing

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

Cloning, Needs, Science, Sheep

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.

Climate, Know, Laughter, Possibility Of Change, Think, Thinking

When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.

Call, Congress, Men, Together, Women

The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

Administration, Fonts, Hard, Pharmaceutical, Size, Women

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.

Cds, Comedy, Eugenics, Record, Start, Trying

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.

Family, Like, Media, Sports, Style

[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.

Conference, Crack, Cracks, Drug, House, Plaid

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good. '

Funny, Good, Good Things, Mabley, Mom, Moms

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.

Act, Coming, Coming Out, Political, Sell, Trying

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.

Uncles, Party, White, Thomas, Color, Nominated

Teaching is performance art.

Art, Performance, Performances, Teaching

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.

Decide, Decision, Morning, Think, Thinking, World

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.

Imagine, Mate, Presidential, Running, Woman, Would Be

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.

Football, Reason, Showers, Sports, Struggle, Tight

[On being lesbian:] One pointer: don't come out to your dad in a moving vehicle.

Come, Dad, Moving, Sexuality, Vehicle

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.

Aids, Deregulated, Military, Religious, Strong

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

Brother, Elected, Friends, Gay, Law

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.

Bars, Boys, Gay, Paulk, Thought, Use

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