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

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.

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.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.

Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.