Archery Quote by Geena Davis

“The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.” quote by Geena Davis — Download Open image

“The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.”

Geena Davis

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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.

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Rosie knows how to play ball. She's an athlete, for sure.

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Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.

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You can't snap your fingers, and suddenly half of Congress is women.

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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…

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