We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.

~There are moments when I feel like I have a looong road ahead of me, with college and dating and driving and all of that. But then I realize it just means that I have so much time left to enjoy my kids. And it really does go by so quickly.~

All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.

The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, "It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different," it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.

I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.