I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I dont have that. I have parents who I care about what they think. – Mindy Kaling
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what were going to eat is hotly debated. – Mindy Kaling
Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. Its the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I dont like at work where you stop everything to sing Happy Birthday to someone. I feel like thats for children. – Mindy Kaling
My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that Ive ever had in my life. – Mindy Kaling
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor – all conductors are white – ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. – Ray Stannard Baker