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 to 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.

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