“I have feminist bones and when I hear things or see people react to women in certain ways I have very little tolerance.”

— Gillian Anderson

Celia Walden Glamour "I have a healthy appreciation of Ryan Gosling" http://www.gilliananderson.ws/transcripts/10_15/14glamour.shtml (August, 2014)
2010s

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