Women's Wit Quotes

There always have been funny women.

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

Women have been funny for years.

Lesbian humor is nothing like gay men's humor. We're sillier.

Women are hilarious.

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

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.

There's a lot of pretty funny women out there.