Nell Scovell Quotes
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Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown.
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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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My criticisms of late-night TV blew up some old friendships and sparked some new ones.
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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.
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Hollywood is built on relationships, and the way you keep relationships is by playing nice.
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Even when powerful men stumble, they inspire fear.
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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.
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I was the second female writer ever hired at 'Late Night.' When I applied for the job in 1988, I had no way of knowing how much the odds were stacked against me.
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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.
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Give me a rock, and I will roll it.
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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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Male writers don't want to be judged in the room. They want to be able to scarf an entire bag of potato chips while cracking fart jokes and making lewd comments without fear of feminine disapproval. But we're your co-workers, not your wives.
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I turned 40, and things started to go south.
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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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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.
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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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For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment.
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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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Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.
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The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.
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The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same career span was a police dog.
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Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'
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I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show.
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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.