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It’s so interesting how fiction can teach you about your own reality. It’s so clear to me in that show how they pit women against each other

— Samira Wiley

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I’m just super clear about what I want to do with my voice, and because I have more courage and conviction around it.

The activism projects I’ve been involved with concern me and many of the women I know in my family and workplace

I have a voice. People are looking at you, and you have to choose what you’re going to use that for. It’s kind of not an option to not use it

These men [on The Handmaid’s Tale] have given women a false sense of superiority over each other and have put a divide between these women so they don’t even understand the power they have by supporting one another.

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