Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year, I had perfected my question and asked Adrienne Rich why there was so little written about women and humor. She looked at me right in the eye and said, 'You write it.' I took that as an order.

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

[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

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.

[On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czarina it had something to do with a plaid couch.

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