Through tears, Jennifer replied:
"There's not enough fingers and toes in this entire room to count how many times that moment has happened...We're all human beings at the end of the day, whether we're a waitress or we're a baker or we're a student or whatever we are, at the end of the day you kind of hit walls and think, 'I kind of can't go any farther.' Or, 'This is too much. My heart can't take it, or the pain is too great', or 'Am I good enough?' or 'Will I survive?'. And you just have to sort of somehow miraculously overcome. And you just go, 'I CAN, yes I can, yes YOU can."
She also managed to touch on "empowering women", "selfies", and "social media", all the pertinent topics for a teen mentor right now. Speaking to the roles of women in film, she said, "I think we need to empower women to not just be about dresses and beauty and selfies. We need to start having conversations and put our phones down and get out of social media, take social-media breaks. That's why we're not seeing the right stories being told. Everyone is stuck in their phones."
On bullying, Jennifer said:
"I suggest taking the offender down as a group. You have to support each other in just eliminating that. People didn't stick up to bullies enough. And now with the Internet, it is endless, and it is a bunch of anonymous bullies that can sort of be stalking...And they're cowardly, and they're anonymous, and they hide behind their computers, so it's about not allowing it to penetrate and have again - put your computers down and have conversations."
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