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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Nell Scovell

Now

Gender

" I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms. "

" In her darkest hours, Diana, Princess of Wales, could have used a friend like Empress Elisabeth of Austria. The two lived similar lives, a century apart. "

" Broad City's first season is full of moments that are insane... and yet make total sense. "

" Moms Mabley blazed a path for female stand-ups in a housecoat and floppy hat. Phyllis Diller worked equally hard to make herself unattractive to men and non-threatening to women. "

" I've worked on over twenty TV staffs, and nine out of ten male colleagues are wonderful, inclusive, and professional. Still, there's usually one guy - the Tenth Man - who turns a fun job into a dental appointment. "

" Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar. "

Nell Scovell

Thought

Funny

" In TV, you look to make characters consistent, but in real life, we're not consistent. Sometimes we're brave, and sometimes we're not. Sometimes we're very aggressive, and sometimes we back right down. "

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

Nell Scovell

South

Turned

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

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

Nell Scovell

Sense

Money

" When I write, I feel like an optometrist, constantly flipping between lenses and asking, 'Is this better? Is this?' Slowly, the work comes into focus. "

Nell Scovell

Focus

Work

" When blue-eyed Donald Trump married hazel-eyed Ivana Zelnickova, he probably figured his broad-shouldered DNA would dominate her girly alleles. But genetics played a cruel trick on Trump: Of the couple's three children, only the youngest, Eric, wound up with his father's fishy blue eyes. "

" For thirty years, I've been hearing that it's getting better for women. And until I see statistical proof over enough years that that's true, I won't believe it. "

" If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses. "

" 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. "

" Retaining a child-like sense of wonder is a boon for creative types like Steven Spielberg and J. K. Rowling. "

Nell Scovell

Wonder

Boon

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

Nell Scovell

Barack Obama

Blackberry

" 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. "

" One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she's mean. "

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

" Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do. "

" Moral licensing comes into play when people rely on past behavior to dismiss current prejudiced behavior. This is better known as the 'Some of my best friends are...' defense. "

" 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. "

" When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a 'freeze response.' You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn't help you. Staying put does. "

" Early on in my career, I was often the only woman in the room, writing for shows like 'Late Night with David Letterman,' 'The Simpsons,' 'Newhart,' and 'Coach,' and sometimes I'd feel like I didn't belong. "

" When you start a memoir, you think, 'I'm going to blast all the people who were mean to me.' And then you start writing, and you go, actually, it's so much more fun to say nice things about people who were kind and generous to you. "

Nell Scovell

Start

Fun

" Albert Brooks. Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Larry David. The best comedic actors play broad and real simultaneously, coming across as both larger than life and all too human. "

" There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful. "

" 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! "