I was so tall in high school that I was convinced that I was uncoordinated and not athletic. I was terrified to… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
~There are moments when I feel like I have a looong road ahead of me, with college and dating and driving and… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I would say how important it is that we stop teaching kids, from the beginning, that boys are more important than girls.… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
My thing in high school was being the tallest kid in class. Always. I was always the tallest kid in class. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
The fictitious worlds created for kids are nearly bereft of female presence. It's sending a very clear message from the beginning that… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
My daughter was a toddler. I had no idea there was anything wrong with kids' media.I started watching little preschool shows with… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Because I had some roles that resonated with women, I immediately noticed that there were far more male characters than female characters… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
What are we doing that for in the 21st century? Why on earth would we teach kids that girls are less important… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
The only movies I saw till I was 17 were made by Disney. My parents had this thing. Disney was like, you… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult,… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the… — 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… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
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… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
