My Parents Created A World In Which

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.

I Am Terrible With Examples. I Can Never Think Of Them When Anybody Asks For An Example.

I Remember Saying, Very Almost Jokingly, I'm Going To Take Over The World Through Television, That's My Plan. And I Said It To My Agent, And I Said It To My Friends, And I Said It To Myself.

I Never, Ever Pay Attention To The Ratings. I Stopped Paying Attention To The Ratings Somewhere Around Season Two Or Three Of Grey's. It's Something I Have No Control Over, So I Don't Even Pay Attention.

The Best Stories Are Often True...the Narrative Of Human Life Is Most Beautiful When Told Truthfully And Without Boundaries.