Gina Barreca

Gina Barreca
Regina "Gina" Barrecais an American academic and humorist. She is professor of English literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut. Her latest book, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?" Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times, was published by St. Martin's Press in the spring of 2016...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
CountryUnited States of America
moving humor firsts
Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.
laughter ties laughing
We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.
nice mean office
The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way.
needs nuclear way
Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.
humor cat world
The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.
believe eye should-have
While I do not believe the earth loaned to us by our ancestors should be plagued by chemical horrors and thereby corrupted for future generations, neither do I believe I should have to face anything that has more eyes than I have during dinner. It was my rule when I was dating and, heck, it's still my rule now.
kids holiday breathing
As a kid, you await holidays with a wide-eyed, passionate, almost maniacal enthusiasm. Heavy breathing is involved.
laughing touching hug
Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.
women anger class
If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.
envy dating guy
Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'
book reading intimate-relationships
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.
pain anger voice
Anger can offer a sense of indignity to replace a sense of shame, and offer a voice-raised above others-which can finally be heard. Those voices are most effective when they are raised in unison, when they have mercy as well as anger behind them, and when, instead of roaring at the anger of old pain, they sing about the glorious possibilities of a future where anger has a smaller house than hope.
anger feelings lust
Interestingly, anger and lust are also elusive states once they have passed. Trying to recall why you were angry about something when you've calmed down is like trying to remember why you were in love with someone who no longer attracts you: the initial impulse triggering the emotion is impossible to recapture.
body looks longing
My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.