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I'm such an admirer of Wendy Davis.
Give me a rock, and I will roll it.
I'm both an insider and an outsider.
I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.
Even when powerful men stumble, they inspire fear.
For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment.
I loved working on 'Murphy Brown,' and I loved working on 'Monk.'
I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.
I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.
I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad.
Making someone laugh is the simplest, most basic positive human connection.
In Hollywood, you kind of trick yourself into feeling like you have impact.
I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show.
If I were to write a sequel to 'Lean In' for men, I would call it 'Make Room.'
Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'
Like Lindsay Lohan and Lauren Conrad, Barack Obama is addicted to his BlackBerry.
Constant exercise can keep the body trim and taut, but the face is another thing.
Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown.
The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.
By June 1990, I'd racked up 'written by' credits on both 'Newhart' and 'The Simpsons.'
My criticisms of late-night TV blew up some old friendships and sparked some new ones.
The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.'
Sensitivity training is a fine idea but isn't taken seriously by those who need it most.
Broad City's first season is full of moments that are insane... and yet make total sense.
Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.
Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it.
Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.
Blondness is a core Trump-family value: Both Donald Jr. and Eric got the memo and married blondes.
To be happy about the fall of one powerful man is to know there are another 10 that need to follow.
An ocean of ink - real and virtual - has been spilled critiquing the appearance of female politicians.
Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech.
People say, 'Dress for the job you want,' and since I wanted a job that guys had, I dressed like a guy.
I have a husband who didn't just resign himself to staying home but was happy to be the primary parent.
I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.
Retaining a child-like sense of wonder is a boon for creative types like Steven Spielberg and J. K. Rowling.
Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors.
One of the great things about being in entertainment is you have access to the media. People pay attention to you.
In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I've never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment.
Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.
I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.
We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer.
The Kennedy Center Honors reflects our humanity and higher purpose. We are a great nation, in part, because we value culture.
If women who don't help women get a special circle in hell, I think women who do help women should get a special cloud in heaven.
The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked.
There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.
Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world to see.
At 26, I was single, living in Manhattan, and working as a journalist at 'Vanity Fair.' I was Carrie Bradshaw... in sensible shoes.
If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.
Everyone - male and female - is biased. But no one wants to admit it, so our brains search for examples that disprove the accusation.
The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same career span was a police dog.