Kate Clinton Quotes

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

  Kate Clinton

• What goes for s*x goes double for politics.

  Kate Clinton

• We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.

  Kate Clinton

• 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

• They didn’t even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven’s sakes in India.

  Kate Clinton

• Some women can’t say the word lesbian… even when their mouth is full of one.

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• 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.

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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.

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• 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.

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

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• I’m happy to say that I’m a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don’t want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.

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• I want to host a religious show. I’m sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o’clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we’d have a great choir.

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• I try something new every night. It’s an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It’s a great workshop for me.

  Kate Clinton

• I definitely want people to laugh because I don’t think there’s a better feeling – I think it’s just so fabulous to laugh. I don’t mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very s*xy organ.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Kate Clinton (17)

Birth:	9th November, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Comedian

About

Clinton was born in Buffalo, New York. She was raised in a large Catholic family in the state of New York. She attended Le Moyne College, a small Jesuit liberal arts college in Syracuse, New York and received her Master's degree from Colgate University in the Village of Hamilton. Clinton went on to teach high school English for eight years before becoming a comedian.

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