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
thinking stories awful
Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.
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.
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.
hurt reading years
...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is watching, and love like you've never been hurt.'...After years of hearing and reading these lines I have decided to tell the truth: the original version is wrong. There is a grave error in the wording of this adage. The correct version should go as follows: Love like you don't need the money, Work like nobody is watching, Dance like you've never been hurt. See? Doesn't that make more sense?
girl your-best-friend should
How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.
anger mad signatures
Anger is the quintessential individual-signature emotion: I am what makes me mad.
girl italian looks
Having a lean and hungry look was frowned upon in my Italian neighborhood where a girl was considered too skinny if she could make her knees touch.
tattoo pain mean
Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent.
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.
jealousy mean italian
I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?
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.
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.
nice mean office
The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way.