"It’s not common for a woman on television, especially if she’s the mom of the family, to be funny. She’s usually a straight man or foil."
― Martha Plimpton
Topic(s):
War
More From Martha Plimpton
- "My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn’t expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world – she did not expect to adjust to mine."
- "It’s easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn’t have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage."
- "Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care."
More In War
- "When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I."― George McGovern
- "Another term for preventive war is aggressive war – starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition."― Ron Paul
- "I think there’s a tremendous split between people who’ve been through a war and people who haven’t."― Antonia Fraser