Lena Dunham
The Girls creator credited her mother with shaping her worldview, telling Paper magazine in 2016, “I think that she instilled it in me so deeply and I sort of thought, ‘OK, she did the job and now the job is done and I just get to call myself a feminist and revel in what my mom did.’ And until I came to Hollywood and started witnessing the subtle but totally systemic sexism that pervades our industry, that’s when I really turned my attention to it again in a powerful way and it became a huge part of my adult identity and not just my inherited identity.”
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