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" I loved working on 'Murphy Brown,' and I loved working on 'Monk.' "

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" You want a diverse writers' room, not because it's the fair thing to do or the right thing to do, but because it's the best thing to do for your show. I've seen that to be true. "

" There's this perception that there's a pipeline problem for women and people of color. I don't buy into that. I think we have a broken doorbell problem, and there are plenty of women and people of color standing at the doorstep trying to get in the door, and nobody's opening it. "

" Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors. "

" Everyone - male and female - is biased. But no one wants to admit it, so our brains search for examples that disprove the accusation. "

" Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech. "

" I realize that 'hire qualified women!' is the sort of outraged demand that's often met with a sigh. No one disagrees, and yet gender inequality in high-paying positions extends into all professions. "

" 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. "

" I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person. "

" I have a husband who didn't just resign himself to staying home but was happy to be the primary parent. "

" Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown. "

" I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show. "

" Like leggings, comedies created by women came into vogue in the late 1980s, exploded in the early '90s, went mainstream in the mid-'90s, and were shoved into the back of the closet around 1997. "

" 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. "

" Like Lindsay Lohan and Lauren Conrad, Barack Obama is addicted to his BlackBerry. "

" I'm both an insider and an outsider. "

" I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in. "

" Hollywood is hard on everyone, but it really is harder on women and people of color. "

" For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment. "

" Feminists cried, 'Sexism!' when New York Senator Hillary Clinton was judged not by the content of her character but by the color of her pantsuits. "

" I turned 40, and things started to go south. "

" Give me a rock, and I will roll it. "

" Blondness is a core Trump-family value: Both Donald Jr. and Eric got the memo and married blondes. "

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" I think it's an uphill battle in every field. You hear late-night comedy is hard on women. And then you hear investment banking is hard on women. And tech is hard on women. And then you start digging, and you learn philosophy departments are hard on women! "

" Jenny McCarthy has used her celebrity and sex appeal to attract attention to autism. And while no one questions McCarthy's determination and passion, many scientists have debunked her anti-vaccine message and her claims that a gluten-free diet can provide a cure. "

" Studies do show that in hierarchical structures, you do get more harassment. There's more power concentrated at the top, which means there's more abuse of power concentrated at the top. And every TV show is very much a hierarchy. "

" Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money. "

" I fantasize about the networks making a rule that each show's writing staff needs to reflect the gender and racial makeup of its audience. "

" It's notoriously difficult to get actors to go on record speaking about other actors. Such requests are usually met with terse replies from publicists explaining that their clients are on set and too busy to reply. "