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I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.
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One of the great things about being in entertainment is you have access to the media. People pay attention to you.
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I'm both an insider and an outsider.
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I loved working on 'Murphy Brown,' and I loved working on 'Monk.'
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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.
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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.
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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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I have a husband who didn't just resign himself to staying home but was happy to be the primary parent.
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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.
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You don't have to let a bad experience stop you from doing what you want to do.
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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.
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There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.
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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.
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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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Hollywood is built on relationships, and the way you keep relationships is by playing nice.
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The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.
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Blondness is a core Trump-family value: Both Donald Jr. and Eric got the memo and married blondes.
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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.
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I'm on the board of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which is run by Dr. Stacy Smith - she conceived of the inclusion rider. What I love about the inclusion rider is it uses the fact that Hollywood is based on hierarchies, and it knows that these key players have persuasive power.
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I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show.
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Sensitivity training is a fine idea but isn't taken seriously by those who need it most.
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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.
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Misogyny - and racism - are 'hidden in plain sight,' and the burden of eliminating them should fall on the institutions, not the victims.
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In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I've never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment.
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If I were to write a sequel to 'Lean In' for men, I would call it 'Make Room.'
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Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.
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Give me a rock, and I will roll it.
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At 26, I was single, living in Manhattan, and working as a journalist at 'Vanity Fair.' I was Carrie Bradshaw... in sensible shoes.
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Hollywood is hard on everyone, but it really is harder on women and people of color.
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Even when powerful men stumble, they inspire fear.
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To be happy about the fall of one powerful man is to know there are another 10 that need to follow.
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I turned 40, and things started to go south.
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One of the greatest benefits to come out of 'Lean In' was convincing women to help and support other women - not out of this sense of duty and that you'd be condemned to hell forever if you didn't, but because it will make all your lives better.
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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.
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I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad.
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I'm such an admirer of Wendy Davis.
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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!
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