Quotes by Kate Clinton

Kate Clinton

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

Dad

Moving

Sexuality

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

Needs

Science

Sheep

[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.

Cracks

Drug

House

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.

Kids

Looks

Teacher

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.

Decision

Morning

Thinking

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.

Color

Party

Uncles

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.

Presidential

Running

Would Be

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

Writing

Years

Gay is when two girls get together, dance and have fun.

Fun

Gay

Girl

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.

Gay

Men

Military

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Administration

Arcs

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Bars

Blow

Boys

Brother

Catholic

Cds

Color

Comedy

Coming Out

Congress

Cracks

Dad

Decision

Double Standard

Drug

Election

Eugenics

Eye

Feminism

Feminist

Fonts

Football

Form

Fun

Funny

Gay

Girl

Given

Good Things

House

Kids

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Law

Lgbt

Lines

Looks

Lying

Masculine

Matter

Media

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Military

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Quotes by Kate Clinton

Kate Clinton

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

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

[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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gay is when two girls get together, dance and have fun.

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