In her speech at Variety‘s Power of Women luncheon on Friday, Tina Fey discussed the significance of women helping women.
Fey credits all the women she’s worked with for her success.
“My whole life is just ride-or-die bitches as far as the eye can see,” she said.
She says the word bitch is a compliment, quoting the titular heroine in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” the Netflix series she co-created and co-executive produces.
“The community of women that I work with have always inspired me to do better,” she said. “To be the best I can be, if not better.”
She said it is for that reason that she makes an effort to hire women.
“I made a vow to myself to not accept that privilege of being the only woman in the room…to use any power I had to create opportunity for others,” Fey added.
Fey was honored...
Fey credits all the women she’s worked with for her success.
“My whole life is just ride-or-die bitches as far as the eye can see,” she said.
She says the word bitch is a compliment, quoting the titular heroine in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” the Netflix series she co-created and co-executive produces.
“The community of women that I work with have always inspired me to do better,” she said. “To be the best I can be, if not better.”
She said it is for that reason that she makes an effort to hire women.
“I made a vow to myself to not accept that privilege of being the only woman in the room…to use any power I had to create opportunity for others,” Fey added.
Fey was honored...
- 4/13/2018
- by Kirsten Chuba
- Variety Film + TV
Tina Fey became an Emmy-winning writer for “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock” after learning to love books as a little girl. “I was read to every night for sure,” she says. “My dad would work and come home, and that would be daddy-daughter time. I remember him reading me ‘A Christmas Carol’ when I was in the second grade. And my teachers in school being like, ‘You’re reading this?’ He was like, ‘You can understand this.’”
Not every child has that same access to books. That’s why Fey supports Reading Is Fundamental, the nation’s leading literacy nonprofit since 1966. The organization, which was founded by Margaret McNamara (the wife of former secretary of defense Robert S. McNamara), has distributed 415 million books to more than 40 million children across the country and enlisted a million volunteers to bolster literacy rates.
In 2017, one million books were gifted to children who needed them,...
Not every child has that same access to books. That’s why Fey supports Reading Is Fundamental, the nation’s leading literacy nonprofit since 1966. The organization, which was founded by Margaret McNamara (the wife of former secretary of defense Robert S. McNamara), has distributed 415 million books to more than 40 million children across the country and enlisted a million volunteers to bolster literacy rates.
In 2017, one million books were gifted to children who needed them,...
- 4/10/2018
- by Ramin Setoodeh
- Variety Film + TV
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