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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rosie knows how to play ball. She's an athlete, for sure.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Archers are pretty focused.
- Cute
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.
- Against
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.
- Free World
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always looked up to him, even though he is shorter.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I go to hotels, they always say, 'Welcome back', even when I've never been there before.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am completely obsessed with numbers and data. I have become a scientist in later life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had one date in high school - that was it, and he didn't ask me out again, because I was taller than everybody. I was very gangly and awkward, and I wore weird clothes that I made.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dressing up used to be more of a thing. My dad wore a suit always. Now you think, why bother?
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landlord, whoever, can be female.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was once up for a part, and the male star was also producing the movie. They were talking about meeting with him or having an audition with him, and then we get the message, 'He wants to have dinner with you.' I said, 'Is that the audition, or is it that he just wants to have dinner with me?'
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was averaging about one movie a year my whole career, and that was because I'm fussy. I probably could have done more.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big takeaway I got from 'Thelma & Louise' was the reaction of women who had seen the movie being so profound, so different. It was overwhelming, and it made me realise how few opportunities we give women to feel excited and empowered by female characters, to come out of a movie pumped.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when 'A League of Their Own' was coming out in '92, when I was doing interviews, it seemed like every interviewer at some point would say, 'So... would you consider this a feminist movie?' People are worried that it's a taboo thing, so I took great relish in saying, 'Yes, I would. Write that, yes.'
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The motto of my institute has always been, 'If they can see it, they can be it.' And it's literally true. If we show something on-screen, it will change what happens in real life.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never intended to become a data head. I could never have predicted it would play such an important role in my life. Yet here we are: My Institute on Gender in Media has sponsored the largest amount of research ever done on gender depictions in media, covering a 20-year-plus span.
- Few Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do we encourage a lot more girls to pursue science, technology, and engineering careers? By casting droves of women in STEM jobs today in movies and on TV.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I didn't realize until much later, in hindsight, was I had subconsciously been choosing projects where the woman was in charge of her own destiny.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Identifying with a character is one of the best parts of seeing a movie, but as women, we've had to train ourselves to experience the male journey.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020