9 Tina Fey Quotes That Will Make You Love Her Even More

On Wednesday, May 18, Tina Fey turns 46. With every birthday, the actress, comedian, writer and producer becomes funnier—and wiser, too.

We’re celebrating the star this year by looking back on some of her most memorable quotes.

“I have a suspicion that the definition of ‘crazy’ in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f-ck her anymore. The only person I can think of that has escaped the ‘crazy’ moniker is Betty White, which, obviously, is because people still want to have sex with her.” —via Bossypants

“If I have to listen to one more grey-faced man with a $2 haircut explain to me what rape is, I’m going to lose my mind.” —at the Center for Reproductive Rights Gala

“The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion.” —via O Magazine

“[While Amy Poehler and I were doing press for Sisters,] every single interviewer asked, ‘Isn’t this an amazing time for women in comedy?’ People really wanted us to be openly grateful—’Thank you so much!’—and we were like, ‘No, it’s a terrible time. If you were to really look at it, the boys are still getting more money for a lot of garbage, while the ladies are hustling and doing amazing work for less.'” —via Town and Country

“[Feminism] means that you believe in the equality of the sexes in every way.” —via Time Out New York

“When faced with sexism or ageism or lookism or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: ‘Is this person in between me and what I want to do?’ If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.” —via Bossypants

“By the time you are in your 40s, what you want to wear and what you think is sexy is not always, like, for another person. It’s what makes you feel good.” —via Glamour

“Because we were raised around art and went to museums and the women I grew up around were curvy…there wasn’t this value on skinny, skinny, skinny. Curvy was clearly meant to be the winner. I go up and down a few pounds with a relative amount of kindness to myself. And I have a daughter, and I don’t want her to waste her time on all of that.” —via Vogue

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“It’s just such a tangled-up issue, the way women present themselves [in comedy]—whether or not they choose to put their thumbs in their panties on the cover of Maxim and judge each other back and forth on it. It’s a complicated issue, and we didn’t go much further on saying anything other than to say, ‘Yeah, it’s a complicated issue and we’re all kind of figuring it out as we go.’” —via NPR’s Fresh Air