Quotes from Nell Scovell

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

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

I traveled to Israel in a small party assembled by Marty Peretz, the editor-in-chief of 'The New Republic.' Other guests included Senator Al Gore and his wife, Tipper. Like every tourist group, we climbed Masada, floated in the Dead Sea, and visited a kibbutz.

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

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.

Sensitivity training is a fine idea but isn't taken seriously by those who need it most.

If I were to write a sequel to 'Lean In' for men, I would call it 'Make Room.'

The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm such an admirer of Wendy Davis.

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

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.

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.

The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked.

Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'

Everyone - male and female - is biased. But no one wants to admit it, so our brains search for examples that disprove the accusation.

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.

Howard Dean is no longer the brilliant mastermind of the Fifty State Strategy that enabled the Democrats to storm the White House and Congress. He's the idiot wearing an ugly sweatshirt.