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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
Actor
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Wareham
Massachusetts
Virginia Elizabeth Geena Davis
Virginia Elizabeth Davis
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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 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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Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.
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Obviously, movies don't almost ever shoot in sequence.
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Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.
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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 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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If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
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Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.
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We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great parts for women.
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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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I was so tall in high school that I was convinced that I was uncoordinated and not athletic. I was terrified to play any sport at all, no matter how hard they tried to convince me to be on the girls' basketball team as the tallest kid in class.
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Are you stupid or did you just take lessons?
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Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.
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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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The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.
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~There are moments when I feel like I have a looong road ahead of me, with college and dating and driving and all of that. But then I realize it just means that I have so much time left to enjoy my kids. And it really does go by so quickly.~
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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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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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For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only get out of the factories, but get out of the movies. That's when women's roles started to really [change].
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