Stay for Geena Davis: daughter, mother (who is very protective of her children's privacy), actor, public policy wonk, data geek, feminist, athlete, badass.

Which isn't her fault -- and doesn't mean she should have to eat shit bc of initial successes elsewhere, imo! A marvellous memoir… an endearing and inspiring account of one “offbeat” woman finding her own voice… I’m often bored by the second half of celebrity memoirs, but Davis’s just keeps building momentum. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Bursting with witty, practical advice on the ins and outs of etiquette, from how one should dress for a formal occasion to what behaviour one should adopt while travelling abroad, this guide will help every modern woman to deport herself with confidence in all types of social and public situations. Well, I have one dream role: I’d like to play Eleanor Roosevelt at some point, because she was tall like me, and I know I can look a lot like her.She has definitely traversed through a few decades of a colourful life filled with rich life experiences. It's not a celebrity tell-all and there aren't any major truth bombs dropped, and that might just be why I enjoyed it as much as I did and why I continue to look up to Davis as one very classy lady. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. With her Massachusettsan frankness and her just-right humility, she detailed her life from beginning to now without ever lingering too long or going into extraneous detail. More than a few of her personal anecdotes of lechery, objectification of women, and and utter disregard for women's voices are sad, but Davis frequently transforms them into learning opportunities and doesn't simply yell from her perch on a soapbox (even though she could).

She has such a lovely cadence to her voice and a certain rhythm in how she told each story that was super fun. The way I understand is she was just in the right place at the right time and modeling was her foot in the door. I knew that he was also to blame because she strolled up the street and told him never to touch me again and then told me never to go up the stairs to his apartment again. So even though this didn't go into a lot of detail on her career, I still found it a thought provoking book. I feel like she gave more pages to the background of her archery career than she did to the inception of the Geena Davis Institute (but truth, I didn’t know either existed until I read the book!While lacking any salacious content, Davis regales us with really tidbits of how projects really came together in Hollywood. Her work fighting for gender equity is a testament to who she always was inside and how she had to break down the barriers to even begin to level out the field.