I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do. – Rachel Sklar
I don’t fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not. – Rachel Sklar
I started as kind of an outsider – freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. – so I didn’t have too many relationships holding me back. – Rachel Sklar
Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sued is not fun. Filing a lawsuit is not fun. And being fired and having to do all of those things is not fun. So just avoid it. – Rachel Sklar
On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you’re smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut. – Rachel Sklar
The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness – and sometimes sadness – of things we see every day. – Rachel Sklar
I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner’s office while he read through my memo. – Rachel Sklar
My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land – and water – below. – Rachel Sklar
Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water – water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just – everywhere. – Rachel Sklar
If you don’t know Tom Lehrer, you should – in addition to being a classical pianist, mathematician, songwriter, satirist, researcher at Los Alamos and, he claims, inventor of the Jell-O shot, he is just delightfully funny and graceful. – Rachel Sklar
My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread. – Rachel Sklar
I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were. – Rachel Sklar
A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force. – Rachel Sklar
The road system that we’ve come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart. – Rachel Sklar
I’m Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice. – Rachel Sklar
What’s surprised me most about the demands of blogging – the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game. – Rachel Sklar
I have to say, I worry about Twitter. Not that it will survive – they don’t need my blessing for that – but that it will stay the kind of open, community-enhancing-and-enabling site that made it flourish at the outset. – Rachel Sklar
While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop. – Rachel Sklar
Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away. – Rachel Sklar
I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords. – Rachel Sklar
What’s more important to ‘SNL’: comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it’s probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it’s ultimately probably the latter. – Rachel Sklar
I didn’t go to law school to become a lawyer, per se – let’s just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents – but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous. – Rachel Sklar
Seeing how easy it has been to use Twitter for good has exposed the double-edged sword of how easy it could be to co-opt. – Rachel Sklar
If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister. – Rachel Sklar
In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught – as much as it’s always been, but now we’re talking about it. And the more we talk about it, the more of us will realize that we’re not going through it alone. Far from it. – Rachel Sklar
There’s a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent. – Rachel Sklar
In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for ‘FishbowlNY,’ a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath. – Rachel Sklar
