If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.
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I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.
When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'
The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.
Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.
Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
I'm always really comfortable writing strong, smart ladies. That's kind of my bailiwick.
I couldn't write a female who fell to pieces every time something didn't go right in her life. She would just annoy me too much.
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
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