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As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president. ”
In the absence of honesty from the Conservative party leadership, it is Labour's duty to spell out the very real consequences of a no-deal Brexit. It is also our duty to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent it. ”
Sex is biological, but gender is mental. ”
In a sense, we are all victims of the misogyny and racism that exist in the world, no matter what our gender or race happens to be. ”
There is - and always will be - the legacy of chattel slavery in this nation, an obsession with racial and gender differences, but I think that, at its best, this nation is capable of creating standards for itself and reaching towards those standards. ”
When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it. ”
I would play just about any role, male or female, in the Anton Chekov play 'The Cherry Orchard,' which I love. ”
I had a really honest conversation with my husband about equal pay because we met on a movie where he was paid more than me just because of gender. ”
It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest. ”
There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of writer's room. ”