Lizz Winstead Quotes & Sayings

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter. — Lizz Winstead

It is easier to talk about issues; it is easier to say you're a feminist because it's actually awesome to be one. The panopoly of people identifying as feminists is really excellent now that we've come to a point where all these really interesting voices are rising up and saying they're feminists - women of color, trans people, gay folks, everybody. It's an exciting time to actually define as that because it means that people are really feeling like their voice is what's the most important thing in the movement, and I love that. — Lizz Winstead

I'm not sure I'm okay with 2 guys gettin' married, but I don't wanna be a jerk about it. — Lizz Winstead

By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail? — Lizz Winstead

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony. — Lizz Winstead

And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate. — Lizz Winstead

People being forced to get health care and the insurance companies making millions. — Lizz Winstead

This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives. — Lizz Winstead

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." — Lizz Winstead

Whoever's president I'm not going to be short on material. — Lizz Winstead

I'm Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a bathing cap for my cat. — Lizz Winstead

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. — Lizz Winstead

There are people that say you should never use humor to talk about anything that's important or hard, and since I don't believe that, at some point there has to be a level of "agree to disagree." — Lizz Winstead

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. — Lizz Winstead

Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level. — Lizz Winstead

In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the room and watch them taking in the people laughing. On some level, that comforted them. — Lizz Winstead

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. — Lizz Winstead

My curiosity is not a choice. It's always been part of me. I think of it as a vital organ. — Lizz Winstead

We live in a nation where corporations are people. — Lizz Winstead

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. — Lizz Winstead

It just seems OK these days to throw women under the bus. Like we're a bargaining chip. — Lizz Winstead

Nebraska is proof that hell is full and the dead are walking the earth. — Lizz Winstead

Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation. — Lizz Winstead

Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer. — Lizz Winstead

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. — Lizz Winstead

I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation. — Lizz Winstead

I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media. — Lizz Winstead

One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath. — Lizz Winstead