Carol Leifer

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Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.


— Carol Leifer


#authentic self #beautiful #because #just #just be

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.


— Carol Leifer


#maneuvering #men #much #other #relationships

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.


— Carol Leifer


#fear #rejection #thing #work #worst

Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.


— Carol Leifer


#best #book #happened #honestly #i

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.'


— Carol Leifer


#always #disadvantage #fact #fewer #i

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.


— Carol Leifer


#i #me #old #other #reason

I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.


— Carol Leifer


#because #feel #got #i #i feel

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.


— Carol Leifer


#children #going #i #just #never

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.


— Carol Leifer


#childless #desire #divorced #figured #got

I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.


— Carol Leifer


#could #gotten #i #least #myself






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With Mitchell Hurwitz Carol Leifer is the creator of the short-lived The Ellen Show (2001). She has written for the Academy Awards for most of the 21st century. Her stand-up experience includes opening for Jerry Seinfeld and Frank Sinatra.

Leifer's "inner monologue" observational style is often autobiographical encompassing subjects about her Jewish ancestry and upbringing coming out same-sex marriage relationships (having been married previously to a man and now partnered with a woman) and parenting. David Letterman discovered her performing in a comedy club in the 1980s and Carol Leifer has since been a guest on Late Night with David Letterman over twenty-five times as well as numerous other shows and venues. Carol Leifer (/ˈliːfər/ LEE-fər; born July 27 1956) is an American comedian writer producer and actor whose career as a stand-up comedian started in the 1970s when Carol Leifer was in college.