I would say how important it is that we stop teaching kids, from the beginning, that boys are more important than girls. It's the 21st century, you know, let's go here. We have to show kids that boys and girls… — Geena Davis Copy Share
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 the world and have half of the dreams and… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
In advertisements for your favorite products, are women denigrated or objectified in some way? All of that is important. I would rewrite my kids'… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I remember when 'A League of Their Own' was coming out in '92, when I was doing interviews, it seemed like every interviewer at… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Behind the cameras, there's a different problem, which I think is not unconscious gender bias. It's probably categorized more as conscious gender bias. Because everybody's known the numbers for decades. Nobody's stunned to hear there are very few female directors, only 4 or 7 percent. Everybody knows, but it doesn't change anything. It doesn't make people say, "Wow! We should… — Geena Davis Copy Share
I was so tall in high school that I was convinced that I was uncoordinated and not athletic. I was terrified to play any… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles] ratio thing they grew up with. It's just been that way forever, so they don't see it. — Geena Davis Copy Share
