She's the creator and executive producer of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and now serves as an executive producer of this year's breakout hit How to Get Away With Murder. It doesn't look like there is any end in sight to Shonda Rhimes's success, and her continued representation of women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community is and should be an inspiration to other writers and producers in Hollywood. Shonda recently spoke at The Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment event, where she gave a heartfelt (and incredibly badass) tribute to women. Here's a snippet:
"If I had broken through any glass ceilings, I would know. If I had broken through a glass ceiling, I would have felt some cuts, I would have some bruises. There’d be shards of glass in my hair. I'd be bleeding, I'd have wounds. . . . My sisters who went before me had already handled it. No cuts. No bruises. No bleeding. Making it through the glass ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints."
