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Anne Beatts

  • I have a theory about American men — I think they think women are boys who don't know how to throw a ball very well. American women are forced into the role of being men without penises, of being men who haven't quite been able to make it. If women don't want to be pussycats, then they get forced into the role of being almost as good as men. Which is lousy.

    • Anne Beatts,
    • in Denise Collier and Kathleen Beckett, Spare Ribs: Women in the Humor Biz ()
  • A friend is someone you can call in the middle of the night when your man is gone, or you wish he would go, or you suspect your cellulite is winning — or even just to prove to yourself that there is someone you can call in the middle of the night.

    • Anne Beatts,
    • "Women, Friendship and Bitchiness," Vogue ()
  • I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to evade the 'feminine' stereotype: 'You say women are afraid of mice? I'll show you! I'll eat the mouse!'

    • Anne Beatts,
    • in Regina Barreca, ed., The Penguin Book of Women's Humor ()

Anne Beatts, U.S. comedy writer

(1947)

Full name: Anne Patricia Beatts.