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Jen Kirkman says she doesn’t want kids and sticks to that decision. She notes that her friends’ children are changing the topics she jokes about on stage. She also follows a simple rule: only follow fashion accounts on Instagram to keep her feed focused.

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I'm not a big fan of young people.

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I have a new rule where I only follow fashion people on Instagram.

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I don't do jokes about elections so that's probably why it went okay for me, except for the crazy people that are…

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I put my filter on, though, and I only see things people I follow [on Twitter] write now. So, I don't even…

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I'm still hibernating so I get really frustrated with other people's goals and just stop.

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I want to be one of those cool people that's like, "What is Twitter?" and just be totally blind to it.

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I think I say things nicely and my whole goal is to be understood and that includes by people who don't understand…

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If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.

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I don't even think people really understand how you can get pregnant or when you get pregnant. I still have questions about…

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I used to make albums because I wasn't touring, and so I thought, "This is the best way for people to find…

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What they call 'alt-comedy' now is basically what comedy was like in the '80s. People tried different things, and everybody went to…

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I wonder if that's the difference between fathers and mothers. I'm friends with people who have kids that are like 5 and…

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I'm tired of explaining to Hollywood that people would laugh at me, because I go around America making them laugh every week.…

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I think people with anxiety do different things during different years, and for me, I waded through my anxiety during the last…

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People said to me, "You know, when you record a special, you're going to regret it. The one thing you'll regret because…

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I'll take anyone I can get that will pay money to see me. And if there's more of me in the world,…

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My joke is a picture of David Bowie on his balcony in the '70s in a suit in Paris, and unless that's…

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Have you ever seen the stereotype of the angry yoga teacher? There are some people that are at an 11 and yoga…

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I don't think people are really breaking ground and getting new fans or anything. So, I just use it more in my…

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I have some pretty wonderful friendships, so that's been really good for me. In the past year, I've really worked on that.…

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I made a career goals list for 2017 and it's so funny. I have low self-esteem or something, so I put both…

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I had no idea that marriage was only supposed to be between two people who wanted to get between the sheets and…

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When you travel, people might not have the same ideas about what is interesting. I'm not really good at compromising when I…

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I think people with anxiety do different things during different years.

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The urge that most people feel to have kids is the exact same as the urge that I have to not have…

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A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down…

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My rule is if one person says it, a thousand people want to say it. That goes for compliments too. I try…

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People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

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[People] might turn into [Donald] Trump supporters who think, "Hey, I get what women are saying." So any chance I get to…

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My curriculum would be the whole year. It would be really slow and it would be about human anatomy. I would teach…

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Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit…

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I really will never understand pushing back on comedians who are like, "I'm like a politician campaigning and shaking hands with these…

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I want to re-visit everything. We're people and we're so different. I think it would just be nice if it wasn't just…

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I realized that even I have weird intimacy issues with humans - like, I need my friendships to get deeper, I need…

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Sometimes I feel like if two parents were given $100, and a child-free person was given $100, everyone would assume that the…

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I don't want to have kids and so I am not going to have kids. People who want kids are going to…

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We've seen a kind of Donald Trump supporter on steroids, like the hate-crime people. Those people, I don't want to see, like…

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Actually, my friendships are changing because my friends have kids, so that's a new aspect to the material. Not just that I…

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I'd also talk about the period and of course all the different gender things that people might feel that they are. I'd…

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The urge that most people feel to have kids is the exact same as the urge that I have to not have kids. I…

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I'm wired to be neurotic and loud and high-strung.

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I have this idyllic love life, but my mind just won't accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night.…

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Actually, my friendships are changing because my friends have kids, so that's a new aspect to the material. Not just that I don't want…

I don't like to joke about dating.

As a woman of a certain age - and really, ever since I hit puberty and my baby-making parts were suddenly subject to public…

I'm not like Woody Allen like, "Oh my god what's going to happen? Ooh Ooh Oohhh." I'm just high-strung. So I do need to…

“I do not like being called “young” by someone who is only a couple of years older than I am, because what that really…

I'm wildly different than Maria Bamford or Sarah Silverman, and might be more similar to some male comics.