Quotes from Nell Scovell

There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.

If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.

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.

The Kennedy Center Honors reflects our humanity and higher purpose. We are a great nation, in part, because we value culture.

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

The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the 'St. Louis Post' and the 'St. Louis Dispatch' to make the - wait for it - 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.'

I'm both an insider and an outsider.

Even when powerful men stumble, they inspire fear.

In March 2010, I attended an art opening for Kimberly Brooks's show 'The Stylist Project' in Los Angeles. It was a starry celebration hosted by Dior and 'Vanity Fair' to benefit P.S. Arts. But even as fun-to-gape-at actresses like Christina Hendricks arrived, I couldn't take my eyes off the oil portraits.

Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar.

Misogyny - and racism - are 'hidden in plain sight,' and the burden of eliminating them should fall on the institutions, not the victims.

People say, 'Dress for the job you want,' and since I wanted a job that guys had, I dressed like a guy.

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

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