Mindy Kaling

“I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.”

“The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.”

“That's what I've noticed about being 32: it is a lot of women and a lot of boys our age.”

“I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.”

“My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.”

“Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.”

“Personally, I, Mindy Kaling want to spend like 80 percent of my life hanging out with women.”