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" There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of writer's room. "

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" I saturated myself with the improv community. "

" I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious. "

" When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning. "

" I've seen 'Bring It On,' like, a thousand times. "

" I have to say, my husband is a big Patriots fan. Like, a huge Patriots fan. "

" You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh. "

" Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail. "

" I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.' "

" On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too. "

" Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives. "

" On the set of 'Girlboss,' I had to keep introducing myself as the show runner - literally, 'Hi, I'm the boss' - to a lot of my crew. My first AD said, 'Why do you keep doing that?' I said, 'Because I get mistaken for an extra.' "

" I've got to literally write my own ticket. "

" I ran track in college. And that team, that all-lady team that I was on, I can remember just being so incredibly sad that I knew we were all going to leave each other after we graduated and that our lives would change. And even though I was the bridesmaid at all their weddings and stuff like that, it's just not the same, right? "

" When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I'm a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor. "

" It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else. "

" I'm a huge fan of Ace of Base. 'The Sign?' I love that song. "

" I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are groups and competition, and some people become famous, and there's a language we speak from one improviser to another. "

" We're big 'Game of Thrones' fans, so we call our house King's Landing. I have a studio apartment above our garage that we call Winterfell. I go to Winterfell to write. "

" Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not. "

" I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning. "

" Tell your daughters and their daughters that if they want to be a firewoman, they can be a firewoman. If they want to be an astronaut, they can be an astronaut. If they want to run their own business or run for president, they can do whatever they put their mind to. "

" I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago. "

" You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.' "

" I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me. "

" I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor. "

" When I was younger, I wanted my hair to look like Molly Ringwald's. "

" I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn't want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm's distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away. "

" 'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby. "

" Second City Las Vegas is very different from Second City in Chicago on the main stage, where they do improv sets. That's how they kind of hone material, kind of work up to new material. "