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" Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh. "

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" I have decided now that my mother should be the GPS woman, don't you think? That would be fantastic: 'Make a left in 11 miles. Get over now - I want you to be prepared. Turn right on Elm Street, I want to see if Myrna Rosenblatt is still alive. Make your second left by the Dairy Queen. Don't go in, they're anti-Semitic.' "

" I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life. "

" For me, humor is everything! "

" I love the vulgar. I kind of have the humor of a 17-year-old boy. "

" My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl - I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag carpeting getting lost in the world of the '70s sitcom. All I wanted to do was run away to the Brady house, The Partridge Family bus; even the project on 'Good Times' seemed better than Clark, NJ. "

" There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage. "

" When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews. "

" I always dreamed of living in N.Y.C. "

" I would love to get married, first of all, from my children's perspective. People don't think of children when they think of gay marriage, but I do have children, and for them to see their family validated as other families are validated and protected by our government, yes. "

" Joan Rivers was my hero. "

" People always think you have a lot of money when they see you on TV. "

" I'm not sure when exactly I knew I was funny, but I always knew I was different. I never had an 'edit' button and would say whatever came into my head. Most of the time, what came out of my mouth was the very thing everyone else was thinking - but too polite or afraid to verbalize. "

" Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience. "

" As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers. "

" In America, I've been told so many times that I look 'too Jewish' that I stopped counting. "

" Remember the phrase - 'Act your age, not your shoe size?' That didn't apply to me, as they were the same until the age of 12 when my feet stopped growing. "

" If I was married to a man, and I had the same life situation that I have, it's the perfect recipe for a sitcom. "

" There is no reason to be ashamed of who you are. "

" I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do. "

" Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties. "

" Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was. "

" Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power. "

" The first time I did stand-up was on a dare. "

" Of course I love cooking Eastern European food because I'm a Jew, but I also love making roast chicken. I love making Hungarian goulash. There are a lot of egg noodles in my cooking. "

" My Shabbat dinner is not to be reckoned with. "

" When I was a kid, I'd read about celebrities who didn't want to talk to their fans after a show. I told myself, 'That's terrible, and I would never do that.' "

" My two sons are the biggest pigs - always dirty, sweaty, burping and farting. "

" I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I live in a 950-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and two sons. "

" Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love. "

" Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh. "