I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

The only limit to success is your own imagination.

I want my daughters to see me and know me as a woman who works. I want that example set for them... I am a better mother for it. The woman I am because I get to run Shondaland, because I get write all day, because I get to spend my days making things up, that woman is a better person - and a better mother. Because that woman is happy. That woman is fulfilled. That woman is whole. I wouldn't want them to know the me who didn't get to do this all day long. I wouldn't want them to know the me who wasn't doing.

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman.

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.