"When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them."

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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.

— Octavia Spencer