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

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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. "

" One of the great things about being in entertainment is you have access to the media. People pay attention to you. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm a little sad that they actually came up with the metaphor of waves for feminism. By definition, a wave goes in, and it comes out. I would really like it to be a tsunami that creates a flood that forever changes the landscape. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years. "

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

" Hollywood is built on relationships, and the way you keep relationships is by playing nice. "

" My criticisms of late-night TV blew up some old friendships and sparked some new ones. "

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

" The Kennedy Center Honors reflects our humanity and higher purpose. We are a great nation, in part, because we value culture. "

" I think, in all fields, there's this motherhood pay penalty where, the second you become a mother - and this is true whether you give birth or adopt - you're perceived to not be as committed to your job. Whereas men are perceived as breadwinners who now need more money and promotions because they're fathers. "

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

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

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

" In the writers' room, I know the difference when someone brushes up against me and makes a sexist crack and when they've stepped over the line and made me feel uncomfortable and unsafe. "

" The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the 'St. Louis Post' and the 'St. Louis Dispatch' to make the - wait for it - 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.' "

" There have been many great newspapermen, but to my mind, only two have achieved immortality: Pulitzer for his endowment and William Randolph Hearst for his castle. "

" 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. "

" In March 2010, I attended an art opening for Kimberly Brooks's show 'The Stylist Project' in Los Angeles. It was a starry celebration hosted by Dior and 'Vanity Fair' to benefit P.S. Arts. But even as fun-to-gape-at actresses like Christina Hendricks arrived, I couldn't take my eyes off the oil portraits. "

" The creative process is often wrapped up in bottomless anxiety, and when the world applauds the product of that process, it soothes the anxiety. Briefly. Then the anxiety returns and even intensifies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "