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" I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous. "

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" I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were. "

Rachel Sklar

People

Lights

I Am

" What I do want is to be transparent about where I am and how I got here. I don't like the cone of silence - it didn't do me any favors in my 20s or 30s, and I don't see it doing much for other women, either. "

" There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing. "

Rachel Sklar

Doing

Women

" I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck. "

" I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not. "

" I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action. "

" Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy. "

" My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important. "

" Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sued is not fun. Filing a lawsuit is not fun. And being fired and having to do all of those things is not fun. So just avoid it. "

" My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below. "

" I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo. "

" I don't feel like I have to apologize for being a technophile, ever. Technology is awesome and lets me do so much. Nor do I feel like I have to apologize for loving my work. "

Rachel Sklar

Technology

Work

" I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating. "

" I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice. "

" Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life. "

" It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is. "

" Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do. "

" The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day. "

" Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good. "

" I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well. "

" I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago. "

" Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use. "

" As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.' "