Have you ever sat in a room so electrified by empowerment that your feet start tapping, your heart starts racing, and your mind is moving in a million different directions? Well I have, and let me tell you, it’s a rush. Because for so many years, I lost my enthusiasm for life.” But now, she likes going out, and, even better, she likes being herself and credits the people that went before her - Laverne Cox, Janet Mock, to name a few - with being able to do so. And when I made the decision to come out, it was by far the best thing I ever did. For years and years, I never felt like I fit in anywhere, I always felt as an outsider, I never felt good on the male side and I wasn’t obviously in the female side, I was stuck in the middle. “Over the past six months, it has been the most eye-opening experience of my life. But she’s also had to learn to answer the questions all women, particularly famous ones, are asked: What are you wearing? What’s your style? Are you a feminist? Sure, she has her daughters for help - Kylie, 18, was there but stayed backstage because she had a fever - but there’s only so much reality stars can relay. On Monday night, she discovered that walking up stairs in a form-fitting gown (custom made for her by Jeremy Scott) and wearing high heels, is more difficult than hurdling at the Olympic level. “Films with women at the center are not a public service project, they are a big time, body-mind enhancing, money-making commodity.”įor Caitlyn Jenner (and many others like her), the gender transition she’s recently undergone has been a learning experience.
I think the world would change.” And Witherspoon hopes to be part of the process, mostly by making movies that portray women in powerful roles.
Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to believe in our own ability? To be a little more ambitious. “I believe ambition is not a dirty word, it’s believing in yourself and your abilities. The actress - and founder of a female-centric production company - went on to ask why ambition - a trait that both Tracey and Elle certainly possessed in spades - is perceived as a negative for women who want to achieve things? She, a working mother of three, challenged this widely-held thought. Not only did she namedrop one of her most beloved characters from Election, she even gave a shout out to Elle Woods. “Every woman that I’ve ever played is passionate, strong, and flawed - except for Tracey Flick, she’s 100 percent perfect (she made me say that),” Witherspoon joked in her acceptance speech for Woman of the Year.
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