Quotes About Representation

Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is that everything about the main female character is defined by men.

I've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction.

I've set the bar high in terms of having a very feminist attitude towards how I present my body.

I spent seven seasons on 'Mad Men,' playing what became considered a very feminist character.

I certainly am a feminist but, in my cinema, I don't talk about any 'isms'. I deal only with individuals; even if an 'ism' surfaces, it is not underlined.

I felt that 'The Woman' was a feminist movie at heart.

SXSW can feel very male, very straight, and very white, and though it's a great festival, when you have a film that's different, it's hard to find your place.

This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come - this is why so many women, particularly women of colour, feel alienated from mainstream western academic feminism. Because don't we want it to be mainstream?

You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.

Aladdin' was one of the few things that I watched as a kid where I was like, 'Oh, that guy looks like me and has a similar culture to mine.'

There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.

If you're in a business where Latinos only play Indian maidens and what I call 'Conchita Lolita' parts - the little fiery spitfires - you do what you have to do.

I don't think the entire world respects women in sport. But if FIFA start respecting the women's game more, others will follow.

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.

I'm carrying the sport of women's boxing and I am the best woman fighter and that's my role.

Every fight, I try to get out there and set an example to show the rest of the world we have fighters from Australia, and we're for real, and we're here to stay.

I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.

You can have a fight card full of male fights, but yet when that women's fight comes on, that's what people watch. They're super excited by it.

I think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure.

Shonda Rhimes has figured it out, of getting multiracial casts on television and appealing to everybody.

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.