Are you KIDDING!?

For some unfathomable reason, I made the mistake of glancing through Vanity Fair's article on Scandal (which I don't even watch -- couldn't make it through the first episode). Buried within was this little gem from one of the actresses:

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“For a woman actor, there has never been a better time to be alive,” Young told me. “Men have always had Shakespeare; now we’ve got Shonda.”

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I'm sorry, did you really just mention Shonda Rhimes in the same sentence as Shakespeare!?

I . . . think I need to go lie down.