Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

I think for women especially, you need to have a plan. I need to have some other ways to generate income, so I don't have to stretch my face or lift the top of my head with surgery or something.

So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?” If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.

You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character.

Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.

There are so many quiet times you spend as a mother that aren't glorified but are a foundation for your kids. No matter what, there was always a thick safety net under this trapeze.