By June 1990, I'd racked up 'written by' credits on both 'Newhart' and 'The Simpsons.'

I turned 40, and things started to go south.

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.

The focus on male politicians extends beyond clothes, legs, and pretty faces. It's hard to find an article about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich that doesn't mention his mop.

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.'

An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'

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.

Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors.

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.

In Hollywood, you kind of trick yourself into feeling like you have impact.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

We have so many great memoirs from women in front of the camera, from Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer.

Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown.

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

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

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

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.

Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it.

I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.

I'm both an insider and an outsider.