With the year ending soon, Yale University rolled out its 2024 best quotes list. Taylor Swift received the top spot on the list with her signing-off quip — “Taylor Swift Childless Cat Lady.” In September, the singer shared an Instagram post to endorse the Democrat Party’s candidate, Kamala Harris, for the 2024 presidential election. She signed off the long note in the caption with “Taylor Swift Childless Cat Lady,” which was a dig at JD Vance’s comments from his 2021 Fox News interview.
Taylor Swift’s Kamala Harris endorsement post features ‘childless cat lady’ dig
The quip “Taylor Swift Childless Cat Lady” made it to the No. 1 spot on Yale University’s Best Quotes 2024 list. Earlier, Swift signed off her Kamala Harris endorsement post on Instagram with this particular quip, which was a reference to the Republican Vice President-elect JD Vance’s comments from a 2021 interview. According to ABC News, Vance said, “We are effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”
Fred Shapiro, the Yale Law Library’s Associate Director, compiled and edited the list of quotes, which was published by Yale University Press. As per AP News, while talking about the list, Shapiro stated, “Please note that the items on this list are not necessarily eloquent or admirable quotations.” The associate director explained that the particular quotes were selected “because they are famous or important or particularly revealing of the spirit of our times.”
Besides Taylor Swift, President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden also secured a spot on Yale University’s best quotes of this year. Biden got the 2nd spot on the list after he officially stated on December 1 — “Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.” On the other hand, Trump’s quote — “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in. They’re eating the cats” — from the presidential debate on September 10 landed the 3rd spot.
