Moonlighting was funny, innovative, genre-busting chaos. Also, apparently, unsustainable. Sigh. - Jane Espenson

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I’m really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

Children are the world's most ardent traditionalists. They like things stable and categorized. They want to know what girls can do and what girls can't do. Television, like it or not, teaches them a lot of these rules.

I can't make real-life workplaces safer and more fair for women just by showing them with briefcases or crossbows. But I can try to grant my characters the quirky gift of humanity — whether they're adjudicating torts or dishing tortes or saving the world. And hope the little girls watching do the rest.