It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.
This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many female forensic scientists on TV becaus… - Geena Davis
This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many female forensic scientists on TV becaus…
- Geena Davis
All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictm… - Geena Davis
All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictm…
The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life. - Geena Davis
The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.
I don't know how in the twenty-first century we can possibly justify not showing girls things that they can aspire to, and at the same time, how can … - Geena Davis
I don't know how in the twenty-first century we can possibly justify not showing girls things that they can aspire to, and at the same time, how can …
I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it." - Geena Davis
I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."
I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins. - Geena Davis
I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins.
The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the space and do half of the interesting things in… - Geena Davis
The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the space and do half of the interesting things in…
Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males. - Geena Davis
Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.
I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and… - Geena Davis
I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and…
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