It’s a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every jok… - Tina Fey

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

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.

Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now, there are planes. You wouldn't take a vacation where you ride on a stage coach for two months but there's all-you-can-eat shrimp. You wouldn't take a vacation where you had an old-timey appendectomy without anesthesia while steel drums play. You might take a vacation while riding on a camel for two days IF they gave you those little animal towels wearing your sunglasses.

The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.

I was ten. I had noticed something was weird earlier in the day, but I knew from commercials that one's menstrual period was a blue liquid that you poured like laundry detergent onto maxi pads to test their absorbency. This wasn't blue, so...I ignored it for a few hours.