Roseanne Barr
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"Roseanne Cherrie Barr" is an American actress, comedian, writer, television producer, director, and 2012 President of the United States/presidential nominee of the California-based Peace and Freedom Party. Barr began her career in stand-up comedy at clubs before gaining fame for her role in the sitcom Roseanne (TV series)/Roseanne. The show was a hit and lasted nine seasons, from 1988 to 1997. She won both an Emmy Award/Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her work on the show. Barr had crafted a "fierce working-class domestic goddess" persona in the eight years preceding her sitcom and wanted to do a realistic show about a strong mother who was not a victim of patriarchal consumerism.

The granddaughter of immigrants from Europe and Russia, Barr was the oldest of four children in a working-class Jewish Salt Lake City family; she was also active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In 1974, she married Bill Pentland, with whom she had three children, before divorcing in 1990 and marrying comedian Tom Arnold (actor)/Tom Arnold for four years. Controversy arose when she sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" off-key at a 1990 nationally aired baseball game, followed by grabbing her crotch and spitting.

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Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women are cursed and men are the proof.

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like a doughnut.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

My husband said he needed more space. So I locked him outside.

There isn't any 'New Man.' The New Man is the old man, only he whines more.

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

The world makes you into a bitch, no matter how quietly you go, so you may as well go kicking and screaming.

I hate the word housewife; I don't like the word home-maker either. I want to be called Domestic Goddess.

I'm only upset that I'm not a widow. [On her ex-husband Tom Arnold].

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny finally and ultimately sated... but enough about the pork.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.

In Tulsa, restaurants have signs that say, ``Sorry, we're open.''.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I know how to do anything - I'm a mom.