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Witty Women
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Author : Ariel Books
language : en
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Release Date : 1994-05-01
Witty Women written by Ariel Books and has been published by Andrews McMeel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-05-01 with Humor categories.
Whether poet, politician, homemaker, or diplomat, with wise and wicked words, these women take aim and always hit their mark.
The Wit Of Women
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Author : Kate Sanborn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The Wit Of Women written by Kate Sanborn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Wit and humor categories.
The Book Of Witty Women
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Author : Kathy Lette
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-09
The Book Of Witty Women written by Kathy Lette and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09 with Humorous stories, English categories.
Ladies Laughing
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Author : Barbara Levy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Ladies Laughing written by Barbara Levy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Performing Arts categories.
This engaging and accessible book examines the world of seven contemporary, popular American women writers and their individual use of wit as a subtle and effective strategy to engage, or "control", the reader. A chapter is devoted to each of the seven writers - Lisa Alther, Rita Mae Brown, Nora Ephron, Shirley Jackson, Alison Lurier, Grace Paley, and Anne Tyler - and discusses their writings and their use of wit in the context of their lives. An opening chapter frames wit and control in psychological realities, and a concluding chapter summarizes the power of wit. A bibliography of the writers' works is also included, making this an ideal introduction and companion to these writers and their works.
Pretty Funny
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Author : Linda Mizejewski
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-03-07
Pretty Funny written by Linda Mizejewski and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-07 with Performing Arts categories.
“A totally engaging read [and] a fascinating look at the diversity and range of female comics . . . by an author who herself obviously has a sense of humor.” —Joanna E. Rapf, coeditor of The Blackwell Companion to Film Comedy Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either “pretty” or “funny.” Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer women who write and perform their own comedy have become stars—and often they’ve been successful because they were willing to be funny-looking, from Fanny Brice and Phyllis Diller to Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett. Pretty/Funny focuses on Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres, the groundbreaking women comics who flout the pretty-versus-funny dynamic by targeting glamour, postfeminist girliness, the Hollywood A-list, and feminine whiteness with their wit and biting satire. Linda Mizejewski demonstrates that while these comics don’t all identify as feminists or take politically correct positions, their work on gender, sexuality, and race has a political impact. The first major study of women and humor in twenty years, Pretty/Funny makes a convincing case that women’s comedy has become a prime site for feminism to speak, talk back, and be contested in the twenty-first century.
Out Of The Mouths Of Babes
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Author : Autumn Stephens
language : en
Publisher: Mango Media
Release Date : 2001-03-01
Out Of The Mouths Of Babes written by Autumn Stephens and has been published by Mango Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-01 with Social Science categories.
Humorous, startling, and shocking quotations from fierce and fiery women fill the pages of this sassy little book. Out of the Mouths of Babes continues the tradition started by author Autumn Stephens in her books Wild Women and Wild Words from Wild Women. There is no lack of confidence and sense of self in these women's sayings. More than 150 outrageously entertaining quotes present mostly well-known women in their outspoken glory. Organized into sections with titles like Gifted Gabbers, Liberated Lovers, and Brazen Biddies, Out of the Mouths of Babes is a perfect reminder to all women that the feminine spirit is alive and well!
She Said
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Author : Dominique Enright
language : en
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Release Date : 2018-06-14
She Said written by Dominique Enright and has been published by Michael O'Mara Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-14 with History categories.
She Said is a wonderful celebration of the wit and wisdom of women through the ages. In it you'll find writers, artists, politicians, actors, musicians, fashionistas, from Sappho to Beyoncé and Dorothy Parker to Carrie Fisher, all of whom have two things in common: brilliant minds and barbed wits that sting with their precision. Featuring women from as far back as 700 BC and right up to the modern day, the quotations and classic one-liners found here will inspire and delight, whether they are cheeky retorts from the outspoken, barbed reflections from the thoughtful or righteous indignation from the slighted. In the words of Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941), 'A woman's tongue is a deadly weapon and the most difficult thing in the world to keep in order.'
The Wit Of Women
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Author : Kate Sanborn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-28
The Wit Of Women written by Kate Sanborn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-28 with categories.
To begin a deliberate search for wit seems almost like trying to be witty: a task quite certain to brush the bloom from even the most fruitful results. But the statement of Richard Grant White, that humor is the "rarest of qualities in woman," roused such a host of brilliant recollections that it was a temptation to try to materialize the ghosts that were haunting me; to lay forever the suspicion that they did not exist. Two articles by Alice Wellington Rollins in the Critic, on "Woman's Sense of Humor" and "The Humor of Women," convinced me that the deliberate task might not be impossible to carry out, although I felt, as she did, that the humor and wit of women are difficult to analyze, and select examples, precisely because they possess in the highest degree that almost essential quality of wit, the unpremeditated glow which exists only with the occasion that calls it forth. Even from the humor of women found in books it is hard to quote-not because there is so little, but because there is so much.The encouragement to attempt this novel enterprise of proving ("by their fruits ye shall know them") that women are not deficient in either wit or humor has not been great. Wise librarians have, with a smile, regretted the paucity of proper material; literary men have predicted rather a thin volume; in short, the general opinion of men is condensed in the sly question of a peddler who comes to our door, summer and winter, his stock varying with the season: sage-cheese and home-made socks, suspenders and cheap note-paper, early-rose potatoes and the solid pearmain. This shrewd old fellow remarked roguishly "You're gittin' up a book, I see, 'baout women's wit. 'Twon't be no great of an undertakin', will it?" The outlook at first was certainly discouraging. In Parton's "Collection of Humorous Poetry" there was not one woman's name, nor in Dodd's large volume of epigrams of all ages, nor in any of the humorous departments of volumes of selected poetry.
The League Of Extraordinarily Funny Women
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Author : Sheila Moeschen
language : en
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Release Date : 2019-04-16
The League Of Extraordinarily Funny Women written by Sheila Moeschen and has been published by Running Press Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-16 with Performing Arts categories.
A celebration of the most groundbreaking women in comedy who used humor to shake up the status quo and change perceptions of gender and comedy forever. Step aside, Seinfeld. It's time for the brave, hilarious women of comedy to finally get the recognition they deserve. The people who say women aren't funny are actually saying something else: that humor in the hands of women is radical and scary. Nevertheless, women have persisted for generations now, deploying their wit in game-changing ways. The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women is a beautifully illustrated book that showcases fifty women -- past and present -- who use humor to deliver cutting social commentary, tangle with sensitive subjects, challenge traditional ideas about femininity, and, above all, do anything but sit still and stay quiet when laughs are on the line. The result is a sisterhood of empowering and often under-recognized figures who have gone on to become standups, writers, and actresses, including Mae West, Lucille Ball, Gilda Radner, Tina Fey, Amy Sedaris, Wanda Sykes, Ellen DeGeneres, Mindy Kaling, Jessica Williams, and many more.
Sand In My Bra And Other Misadventures
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Author : Jennifer Leo
language : en
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Release Date : 2003
Sand In My Bra And Other Misadventures written by Jennifer Leo and has been published by Travelers' Tales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Voyages and travels categories.