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My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

Joan Rivers' remarks on BBC 2 (February 23, 1990), as quoted in Elaine Bernstein Partnow "The Quotable Jewish Woman: Wisdom, Inspiration and Humor from the Mind and Heart" (p. 179), April 2004.
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.