Geena Davis Quotes

Marriage is made out to be so important for girls but the focus has to shift at some point from marriage to the real challenges of life which are the same for women and men, so we have to prepare our girls just the way we prepare our boys.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They are quite right to be. Telling girls that the cars and the guns are beyond their domain of expertise, and that they should content themselves with clothes and friendships, is limiting.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

I like to play strong women.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”

Feminism, as I see it, is not about counting women in key jobs.

I find it extraordinary that contemporary dramatists don't find women interesting. Women are rarely, if ever, the central dramatic engine; they're there as an adjunct, and that hasn't changed at all.

Why is being a woman so surprising? There are two sexes. A man and a woman. So, if it's not a man in a movie, what else was it going to be?

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

As a female in metal, I'm going to get ostracized one way or another. So, if I'm going to have people hating me because I'm a female in metal, I might as well get people loving me because I'm a female in metal, too.