Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films. — 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 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
My point was the world is missing female characters. A lot of times there is one female character, maybe even a cool… — 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
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
The creators of kids' media had no idea they were leaving out that many female characters. They were in utter shock that… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
The film festival is in a town in Arkansas, a quintessentially American town with a little town square. It's to champion women… — 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
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