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Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
Shonda Rhimes
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Shonda Rhimes
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 13
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Shonda Lynn Rhimes
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Everyone always says to me, 'Why aren't there more people of color on television?' I'm like, 'Why don't you ask a bunch of people who aren't putting people of color on television why there aren't more people of color on television?'
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Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.
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Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.
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Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.
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You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
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You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.
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I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act together.
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A hashtag is not helping... A hashtag is not a movement. A hashtag does not make you Dr. King. A hashtag does not change anything. It's a hashtag.
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I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of Grey's. It's something I have no control over, so I don't even pay attention.
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Mother is a verb, not a noun.
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I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.
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You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
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I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman.
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At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them
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The only limit to success is your own imagination.
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I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.
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My parents created a world in which the only barrier to your success is your own imagination.
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When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.
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I cannot keep track and lots of great shows go unnoticed.
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Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.
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