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I love Viola Davis.
Trayvon Martin broke my heart.
I made mistakes in every trial.
I actually was a defense attorney first.
Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.
I loved my job... then the Simpson case happened.
That's who I was: a prosecutor. I really loved it.
I really don't miss the trials and courtroom appearances.
I'm a big supporter of women doing anything they want to do!
I have straight hair. If I don't blow it out, it's not good.
Too frequently, we see women being pitted against each other.
I'd always wanted to write crime fiction. I loved Nancy Drew.
I don't feel like an icon; I don't think of myself as an icon.
I was the only female in the special trials unit for many years.
My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.
I can write dramas that are about inside and outside the courtroom.
I decided to have a life: to become - pardon the expression - a soccer mom.
If you get robbed, no one's going to ask you, 'Well, what were you wearing?'
Sarah Paulson is mind-blowing. I mean, she always is. She's always fantastic.
I like cable stuff; I really do - 'American Horror Story,' 'American Crime Story.'
I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets.
I am devoted to my two children, who are far and away more important to me than anything.
I had the perm because I wanted wash-and-wear hair. I didn't want to be bothered with it.
Most people don't go back to trial work after being in management, but I couldn't do anything else.
I am a feminist. And I don't think of that as being anti-men, I think about it as equal rights for women.
I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid.
It's one thing to evaluate a woman's work. it's another thing to say, 'Your hair was this; your makeup was that.'
I think cameras should be in the courtroom, but they need to be managed properly. You need a judge to hold the line.
You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading.
Before I was a prosecutor, I was a defense attorney. I took a cut in pay because I wanted to stand up for the victims.
I think women in general, we just soldier on. Whatever it takes, you just have to do it. It's your job. Whatever it is.
I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.
You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy.
I remember being called 'feminazi' and all that. I'm so proud of these young women who are coming out and not afraid to say they are feminists.
I'm just not a religious person, not at all. I consider myself a spiritual person. I was always very drawn to Buddhism, Hinduism. I still meditate.
I wasn't unsympathetic as a defense attorney, but my strong feelings for the victims were getting in my way. I identified too much with the victim.
I didn't understand why people cared about my hair or my makeup or my clothing. It was like, 'I'm a prosecutor. I'm not a model. I'm not an actress.'
If you're going to educate the public and tell them how things happen in the courtroom, then you really owe them the duty to do it right. Don't misinform.
I don't think any prosecutor should walk into a courtroom and think they're going to wow a jury with catchphrases and cliches and that kind of performance.
It's gratifying when younger women come up and say, 'I went to law school because of you.' My heart swells; then it's like, wait, are you glad, or do you blame me?
By no means did my first book sell. I took a few runs at it. You'll never see those early efforts 'cause they're burned, straight to the fireplace where they belong.
The minute you step into a job where you have to be at all tough and assertive, that's when the mischief happens. And you're not allowed to be assertive and feminine.
When I first joined the DA's office, there weren't that many women. So there was a fair degree of sexism. Everybody kind of got over it when they saw you doing your job.
As a lawyer, particularly in criminal law, you really do have to try to tell your story to the jury and hope that the judge makes rulings that allows your story to get through.
I was famous in a way that was kind of terrifying. I had no protection. When reporters showed up at my house, there wasn't even a sidewalk. They were literally parked on my front lawn.
I loved writing when I was a kid and thought about being a writer then. But I didn't have the confidence or belief that I could earn a living that way, so I never took myself seriously.
I wound up getting pulled into being a consultant on the Lifetime drama 'For the People.' The executive producer said, 'I want you to write scripts.' We sold pilots to a bunch of different networks.
There are bombshells that happen in court. Especially when the defense doesn't share discovery of material the way the prosecution does, and so surprises always happen. Things pop out without warning.
After the verdict was read in the Simpson case, as the jury was leaving, one of them, I was later told, said, 'We think he probably did it. We just didn't think they proved it beyond a reasonable doubt.'
The only thing the defense has to do is take care of the client and see to it that they attack every weak spot on the prosecution's case. It's up to the judge to make sure that they don't pull any fast ones.