Lizz Winstead Quotes
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I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole."
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This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives.
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I'm not sure I'm okay with 2 guys gettin' married, but I don't wanna be a jerk about it.
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I've always considered myself a feminist, I always considered myself somebody who is a reproductive rights activist, and I've spent the past 25 years of my life speaking truth to power. And using humor to do that.
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To really start talking about a narrative where there's no good abortion or bad abortion; there's only the abortion that you need, I think that message is really resonating and changing the landscape of how we talk about it. We're really moving forward.
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Unless you can point to something that I have done or said that has changed the course of the public opinion in a negative way, you've got to check yourself sometimes and say, "Maybe I don't like the way that this thing is said, but it's expanding tolerance." If I said something that was shutting down something that was positive, call me out, but I don't really see me doing that.
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Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff [ abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights] very much because Donald Trump and the general election is sucking all the air out of the room - if people aren't paying attention to their state, they're certainly not paying attention to what's happening in other states.
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I just think that also controlling women is a way to control the whole narrative. And so I think when you've oppressed a people for a really long time, you're terrified to give them any power because they may have some reflection of how horrible you've been and you're terrified of being treated that way. All that we want is to be our best selves, but that's hard for them to understand.
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Every era in history has needed, and will need, reproductive health services.
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What's blinking red on my radar is the fact that for people who prioritize abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights, those things are coming out of state legislatures, and some of the laws on reproduction stuff is coming out of city council, and so what's getting at me is the fact that there's just a fundamental lack of understanding that these laws are happening and being created by people who often won by ten votes in a midterm election.
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Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.
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I think the craziest thing I heard, and this guy's not even nominated, he's from Texas...he said there's no reason that women shouldn't carry a stillborn baby to term, and that it's an excuse to have an abortion if she doesn't want to. She should just let nature take its course from start to finish. Literally forcing birth of a fetus that died in the womb.
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The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.
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There's plenty of ways you can go and encourage people. And you should do that. But don't demonize what you do, I do, what other comics are doing, when you see people showing up and listening and responding because they've heard the messaging in the new kind of way.
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I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.
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Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.
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When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say "Oh my god." Talk about it.
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If you're a woman and you've decided to step in front of people on any kind of platform and say that you have feelings about anything, you are committing a radical act. People view it as such, so you might as well actually commit a radical act.
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If you want to effect change, start small.
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I feel like the world has just become a polyester suit that's smoldering, melting, and at some point we have to figure out how to extinguish it.
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Having an enemy that is visible out in the daylight is a good thing.
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By laughing, it helps take our power back.
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We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.
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I'm a firm believer of wine.
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Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.
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We live in a nation where corporations are people.
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Since we are made up of comedians and filmmakers and writers and improvisers, we have the unique opportunity to bring joy to people who are sometimes buried in their own lives or are subjected to the bullshit that clinic workers are subjected to every day.
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Nowadays everybody's a feminist - male, female, trans. Gender's so passé they don't even care anymore. They know what equal rights are, they know what it's about, and everybody is standing toe-to-toe strong about it and really fighting.
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My curiosity is not a choice. It's always been part of me. I think of it as a vital organ.
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The second you realize you're not alienated, that makes you empowered.
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