"It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do."

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"It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do."

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"When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them."

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"I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it."

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"I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play."

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"I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo."

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"Archers are pretty focused."

Pretty

"This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like."

Family

"When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films."

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"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."

Nothing

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

Play

"I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before."

Action

"So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made."

Change

"We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do."

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"I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance."

Action

"It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream."

Dream