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Daily Inspiration Quote by Sarah Michelle Gellar

"In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top"

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There is a sly compliment and a quiet indictment baked into Gellar's contrast: TV is where women can "run anything", while film remains the place where women are still merely "getting to the top". The phrasing matters. "Run" is a power word, managerial and creative at once, implying not just starring but steering tone, shaping stories, calling shots. Then the second sentence lands with a thud of unfinished progress, as if the ladder itself is the only thing Hollywood is willing to build for women in cinema.

Gellar is speaking from a career that straddled eras: the late-90s star system, the prestige-TV boom, and now the streaming period where television has become the industry's talent magnet. Her point isn’t that TV is morally better; it’s that TV has evolved into a more elastic marketplace. Longer seasons and writer-driven rooms create more roles, more kinds of women, more chances to be complicated without needing to be "a movie star". Film, meanwhile, still clings to risk myths: big budgets get justified by "bankability", and bankability gets coded as male, white, and familiar. The subtext is economic, not sentimental.

The line also contains a strategic optimism. By framing television as already capable of women-led "anything", she’s normalizing female authority as a proven model, not a political demand. That makes the critique of film sharper: the evidence is in, and the industry still pretends it’s waiting for proof.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Gellar, Sarah Michelle. (2026, January 16). In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-television-women-can-really-run-anything-it-102775/

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Gellar, Sarah Michelle. "In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-television-women-can-really-run-anything-it-102775/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-television-women-can-really-run-anything-it-102775/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is a Actress from USA.

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