Believe It Or Not, Lots

I Recognize That I Have A Unique Position To Be A Role Model To Young Girls Because I Am Doing Something That They Consider Glamorous, Which Is Acting, And Yet I Took A Time To Really Get My Education And Study Mathematics, And I Think Math Is The Cat's Meow.

When Girls Are Asking Themselves 'who Am I?' For The First Time And They Hear All This Bad Pr About Math, They Think, 'well, Whoever I Am, I'm Not Somebody Who Likes Math.'

Teenage Girls These Days Are More And More Getting Lured Into Thinking They Should Dumb Themselves Down, And That's Going To Attract The Wrong Kind Of Guy, And It's Serious. It's Serious Business.

When I Got To College, I Was Intending To Study Film. But I Found That My Brain Was Feeling Mushy, So I Took A Few Math Classes. I Started Doing Really Well At Them, And Solving Equations Was This, Like, Drug Rush.

My Message Is: You Don't Have To Give Up Being Popular, Fun, Or Fashionable In Order To Be Smart; They Can Go Hand And Hand. Doing Math Is A Great Way To Exercise Your Brain; Being Smart Is Going To Make You More Powerful In Life.