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If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life.

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Geena Davis
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 21
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Wareham
Massachusetts
Virginia Elizabeth Geena Davis
Virginia Elizabeth Davis
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This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.
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I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters.
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In advertisements for your favorite products, are women denigrated or objectified in some way? All of that is important. I would rewrite my kids' books, I would write it in the books for the babysitter!
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They called and said, I know we're not supposed to even tell you, but you've been offered to play the President. And I said, OK. Say yes. And they were like, Do you want to read it maybe? And I was like, No, I just want to be the president.
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I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.
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I'm so not a party person. I'm so not social and don't go to parties.
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The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different, it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.
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If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.
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Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.
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I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.
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I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.
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People think of me in the same breath as Robert Redford and Robert De Niro.
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All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.
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We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done right by them. It's the same in every profession. We get a handful of women professors, a few female board members - that looks normal.
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Obviously, movies don't almost ever shoot in sequence.
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I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.
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I had told my agents that I never wanted to do an hour-long TV show. I said, I'm not that stupid. Because it's the worst lifestyle in Hollywood.
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I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.
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I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.
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The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.
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