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" My first joke that ever aired on 'Late Night' was for a list of 'Top 10 Least Popular Summer Camps.' My contribution - 'Camp Tick in beautiful Lyme, Connecticut' - squeaked in at No. 10. Like a trip to Camp Tick, my time at 'Late Night' faded into memory like a short session at a dicey summer camp. "

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

" The focus on male politicians extends beyond clothes, legs, and pretty faces. It's hard to find an article about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich that doesn't mention his mop. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" In Hollywood, you kind of trick yourself into feeling like you have impact. "

" In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I've never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment. "

" 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. "

" An ocean of ink - real and virtual - has been spilled critiquing the appearance of female politicians. "

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

" Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.' "

" 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. "

" To be happy about the fall of one powerful man is to know there are another 10 that need to follow. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.' "

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" I'm such an admirer of Wendy Davis. "

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" The first Emmys I went to was in 1990 when the five nominees for best comedy were 'Designing Women,' 'Golden Girls,' 'Murphy Brown,' 'Cheers,' 'Wonder Years.' Three and a half were created by women. "

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

" 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. "

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

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Give Me

" 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. "

" 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. "