I don't want to have kids and so I am not going to have kids. People who want kids are going to have kids. I'm doing what I want to do and people who want kids are doing what they want to do. What about this scenario makes me selfish?

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It's like, "Women can't handle things because they're always sad. That's estrogen." Men brag about testosterone, which makes them completely out of control too. On the other end of things, it's like, "Oh it was just testosterone. He got in a bar fight." Why is that better than crying at work?

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I just feel like estrogen is bad hormones, and seen as shameful.

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estrogen hormones feels

Testosterone makes you completely out of control, but that's okay.

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testosterone okay

Everyone traveling alone is just on their phones the whole time.

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traveling-alone phones whole

I know everyone says they go to yoga, but I actually really go. I notice that helps me so much.

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help-me yoga helping

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 do a lot of stuff.

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woody stuff needs

I think Twitter is kind of boring, to be honest. To me, it's not even real life.

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honest real thinking

My rule is if one person says it, a thousand people want to say it. That goes for compliments too. I try to balance it out in my head.

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balance trying people

Sometimes I look [ on trolls on Twitter], but even one ignorant comment can make me go, "Oh god."

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troll ignorant looks

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

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filters writing people

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

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crazy hate people

In terms of what happened to Amy [Schumer], if that happened to me I would be like, "Yes, please leave." But I toured a lot. I started as an opening feature act touring a lot during the [George W.] Bush years, like around 2007. I was touring during the [Barack] Obama election - the first one with [Sarah] Palin and [John] McCain - and I talked to crowds about that and they were always split down the middle.

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amy crowds years

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

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goal people thinking

[People] might turn into [Donald] Trump supporters who think, "Hey, I get what women are saying." So any chance I get to have people listen that should hear me is good.

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might people thinking

Let me say this. [Donald] Trump is the only person that has control over what Trump does. Maybe his supporters support him but they don't support every single thing about him. Maybe they are misguided about what it means to be friends with Russia. Maybe they come to my show and they never thought about sexism in the way that I talk about it in a joke.

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support russia mean

I'll take anyone I can get that will pay money to see me. And if there's more of me in the world, people who think they're good people and comedians who have a good message or whatever, then that's great. If there's some kind of balance there that's good.

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comedian people thinking

I stay on [Twitter] because I deserve to.

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deserve

I stay on [Twitter] as Jen Kirkman, a person. It's just a way for me to connect with what I know and read everything and catch all areas.

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areas persons way

I'm not anxious, I'm high-strung. I just decided that's the difference for me.

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high-strung anxious differences

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

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