We?re in the Scandal off-season right now, so a lot of people are going through some serious Olivia Pope withdrawal. We?re all fending for ourselves in these wasteland weeks with no Shondaland Thursdays ? who knows what Twitter will become without its weekly dose of ?Did he lick her? Really??? and ?They?re having sex there? Now?? But it seems we?ve found something truly worthy to occupy our free time: Kerry Washington talking about women in media. No, she?s not wearing any impeccably dry-cleaned outerwear or touting wine. But what she has to say is pretty uplifting. Washington recently accepted the 2014 Women in Film Lucy Award For Excellence in Television, and during her acceptance speech, she waxed poetic on one part of what it means to be a woman striving for excellence. You can read the full speech transcribed over at Buzzfeed (link above), but here are the two bits that stood out to us the most:

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