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Cindy - Creative Classic — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:08:24 -0000

I definitely am choosing to become a successful female screenwriter - there is no want, or like to be - I am going to be a successful screenwriter. I am going to put strong female characters on the screen, and I am going to sell it to female producers (there is actually one film company I just read about in Script Magazine run by young women from Harvard and Yale). And if I am unable to sell them to females, then I will sell them to males; I keep thinking of the quote "Nobody knows anything in Hollywood" - which basically means that they don't know what will sell until they put it out there and see how people will respond. If I write an awesome story, I believe that it will open doors.

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Cobby — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:55:48 -0000

There are two glass ceilings in my life that I want to break. The first is the corporate glass ceiling that makes it more difficult for the women in my peer group at work to move up the chain. I want to make that move. The other is in the all-women's organization for which I volunteer a significant amount of time. Each year, a new President is chosen and it always seems to be women who neither work outside of the home nor have small children at home. I would very much like to break that glass ceiling too.

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Andrea — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:37:05 -0000

Being the first African-American female entrepreneur whose business focuses on aspiring teen authors.

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DanielleLaPorte — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:20:42 -0000

gorgeous. I just cut and pasted your 4 human elements. thank you...

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Danette — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:09:40 -0000

Lucia, I am cheering you on. In fact, please become a successful screenwriter!

The perceived glass ceiling I am dying to see pushed through is female portrayal & opportunity in television and film, but most painfully, in the blockbuster animated films directed at kids. I almost can't watch them anymore, because I start counting the female voices and calculating the ratio...and it is just plain sad.

Just try watching Monsters Inc. and count the characters that are female throughout the entire film. You can, there are that few of them. Then take a good look at those archetypes. If you were a little girl wanting to role play, which one would you choose? The baby waiting to be saved? The secretary begging for another date after being stood up? Who said monsters were all male?

It seems like all characters are male unless there is some special reason not to be, and that is signaled to the audience with enlarged lips and eyelashes. I'd like the number of female characters to be so big, that I couldn't write about what they represent--because they would simply represent the diverse and colorful female half of the population.

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Alison — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:23:04 -0000

Everybody seems to have something to say on what a glass ceiling is or isn't, and how they relate to it. Difficult greater goals seem to be the norm here. I don't know about you, but I'd like to see more of this. It seems to show real honor and strength of integrity in my eyes.

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marn — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:12 -0000

Ah-hem.... you mean 'Domestic GODDESS' - ;-)

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marn — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:31:47 -0000

Yes, size 8 jeans at the Gap/Banana Republic rock! It is like they are made for my butt & hips.... The rest of the sizing on jeans? Hello cracky & muffin top! YUK!
:-P
Luckily when I did live in Whistler it was all pre-baby years (I was ages 18 - 31 yrs) Can't imagine it now... sigh... :-(
Here's to Kal Beach / Okanagan Lake, & real bods!

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CarrieM — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:27:57 -0000

go girl! Ditto.

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MoJo — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:08:32 -0000

DITTO on Danielle's answer! And in the whole spirit of 'BE the change you wish to see in the world" I have been seriously reassessing things lately. As much as I love my work, it has very little to do with me, and is more of a cumulation of doing what I needed to do to pay the bills. And although I agree with the suggestions that the ceilings are self-imposed to some degree, there is also the reality that these ceilings exist to a greater or lesser degree, especially with regards to race, gender and socio-economic factors. That said, I've broken my share and will continue to as I encounter more...

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Lynda Monk — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:39:39 -0000

I was at a workshop yesterday entitled Conscious Leadership - exploring the concepts of spiritual intelligence and leadership. The core message of the learning was that as leaders (and we are all leaders to someone or something) need to be doing there own personal. The foundation of good leadership is self awareness and attention to mind, body and spirit. Leaders must be prepared, as individuals, to engage deep change in heart and mind - to show up new. This time on our planet is urging, trying to push through to a new level of understanding, a new way of being, a new language for defining success, relationships to ourselves, each other, the environment, the world. Perhaps there is no glass ceiling, no breaking through, but rather deep entry into a new way of relating to the callings and challenges and opportunities, a new language that emerges that calls forth peace, spirit, integrity and wisdom. Yesterday one of the presenters told a story of asking one of her wise teachers "what is it to be fully human?" - the answer that was offered included four things:
to have faith
to be living
to be loving
to have freedom
Perhaps how we cultivate each of these dimensions in our lives and with one another helps us remove glass ceilings and other things that might keep us smaller than our highest selves. Thank you for a great question! Warmly, Lynda (SS: sacred whimsical)

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Natasha L — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:25:04 -0000

I refuse to acknowledge glass ceilings! I've known a few great women who've told me they just never knew it was there - and so it wasn't for them. I'm going to follow in their footsteps.

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Susie Hutchinson — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:59:08 -0000

I would like to live to be 107, and see my daughter as a great grandmother. At the same time, I would like to be extremely healthy and in complete mental control.

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rock girl — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:52:18 -0000

You are so right! I think we all need our edit buttons surgically removed. So many terrible things happen because people are afraid to talk openly.

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Danielle — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:42:44 -0000

It doesn't... If anything, I think it puts me in a better position.

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Danielle — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:39:00 -0000

I want to be a successful female director, producer, cinematographer and scriptwriter. In the art school I attend I am one of very, sadly, few females and one of the only ones with bigger dreams and goals then working for 'some man'. Why can't we strive to do more? Break those 'men-only' restrictions and prove that if women really ran the world, it would be way less fucked up.

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Elena — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:59:45 -0000

the glass ceiling that separates appropriate and "inappropriate" conversation. I want respectful discourse about every topic under the moon to be comfortable and normal, regardless of the situation, whatever your position, no faux pas. That feels like a ceiling that needs a good elbow or two.

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DanielleLaPorte — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:27:49 -0000

ditto on the size thing. Like kerrymac, my boobs push me into the XL section sometimes and a size 12 at Raya is like, for a slighlty pudgy Barbie Doll. Women with hips unite!

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DanielleLaPorte — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:25:22 -0000

apparently if stay at home moms were paid just minimum wage for all of the hours they put in, they'd earn of $200k a year. Uh huh.

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Leanne — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:22:00 -0000

The 'Glass Ceilings' that we put on ourselves due to fear of the unknown and go forth with grace, confidence, inner-strength, and trust instead.

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kerrymac — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:21:55 -0000

I'm with you both on that, Mom's rock!
Regarding the sizing thing...try living in Whistler, I am a 8 at the Gap but if I need pants in a pinch I am usually an XL in Volcom, or Roxy or any of the skater styles available up here. Sometimes even the XL blouses don't even button up over my B boobies- that's depressing! Being at Rainbow beach on a summer day can be like a Sport's Illustrated swimsuit edition, tons of babes over 40 rockin bikinis with six pack abs and buns of steel. It's pretty inspiring but it makes my post baby belly rather shy! Looking forward to some beach days at Kal Lake with you next summer!

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kerrymac — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:14:53 -0000

Love all these stay at home Momma's speaking up for themselves, it's awesome! I want to find a way to make some good moula working from home and still being a great "domestic engineer" for my family. It has to be something that I LOVE doing, no more attempts at network marketing random things pour moi...thank you very much.
If I could find that something, something that was wonderful and made moula I would also love to share that with other Moms to do. Humm...I guess that's kinda gotta be network marketing, but I'd make sure it was a fabulous deal for all.
www.snickerdoodles.typepad.com

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etalerman — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:07:33 -0000

I'm ready to help shatter that glass ceiling that keeps women and minorities from holding the highest public position in the USA. I'm ready for a change and I'm ready to see the US elect our first black president.

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Colette — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:59:31 -0000

I agree. There is no ceiling to shatter. The only barriers and those we believe to exist. Believe something new

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Sophia — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:54:04 -0000

Recently, I was often thinking that the thickest barriers in my life are those that I built up myself. I am getting more and more courageous and determined to break through those. Actually, I think I have already broken through the most "dangerous" ones in the past 2 years, through the ones that made me think that my life was in a way enclosed within a certain frame, and determined by ideas that were in many cases not my own.

Breaking through my own barriers and glass-ceilings of olden times is exhilarating and scary, but I also have never felt so alive and happy.
Today I caught myself thinking: "Just take care that you don´t get complacent now!" That´s something I would have never thought a few months ago!
My eyes are wide open now, smiling, curious, confident.
The barriers have broken down, I just need to remind myself of that every day!