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" I never do anything fun, because I'm a housewife. I hate that word 'housewife.' I prefer to be called 'domestic goddess.' "
Roseanne Barr
Never
Word
Hate
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" I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them. "
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" You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing. "
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" I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty. "
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" Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact. "
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" I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to debate me. Because I think that both of those guys - I think that the American people are being given a false choice, because the choice between the lesser of two evils is a false choice. "
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" I know how to do anything, I'm a mom. "
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" When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying. "
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" Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you. "
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You
Way
" I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did. "
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Nobody
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Me
" I am a woman, therefore I am a problem solver. "
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I Am
" The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest. "
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Through
Man
" I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form. "
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Powerful
Think
" There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. "
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Hell
More
Most
" Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with. "
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Believe
I Believe
Space
" Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids. "
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Before
Bed
Night
" I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success. "
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First
Writing
Well
" It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it. "
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Up
You
Shut Up
" Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head. "
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Nation
Head
You
" I try to do women's-point-of-view comedy. The joke is, 'This is what I think; there's the truth.' I try to think of stuff that's real broad, but the more personal it is, the more universal it is. All my friends go through the same stuff. "
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Friends
Comedy
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" Comedy is the only hope for humanity. "
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Hope
Comedy
Only
" Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing a carton of milk back in the refrigerator after drinking from it. "
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Problems
Simple
Own
" Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem! "
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Facts
Problem
People
" The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians. "
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Truth
Truth Is
Voice
" After my 1985 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,' I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom. "
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" Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it. "
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Me
Think
" I am an observant Jew! Now my secret is out. "
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I Am
Out
Now
" I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election. "
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Election
American
Ignore
" I'm tired of watching as men destroy all the world. Everything used to be beautiful when women were in charge, and now I, working as the physical manifestation of the goddess Isis and the reincarnation of Cleopatra, have decided to save the world. "
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Men
Now
" I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you know, I mean, everybody's kind of loony now. So I was kind of a pioneer in the mental illness thing, too. "
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You
" Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend all their money on the military like patriarchy does. They are easy prey. "
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Always
Easy
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