Quotes About Representation

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.

I've got to show life as I see it.

I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.

Man be my metaphor.

All art originates in the human mind, in our reactions to the world rather than in the visible world itself, and it is precisely because all art is "conceptual" that all representations are recognizable by their style.

We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.

She knew that women were rarely the centers of such stories. Instead, they were eye candy, arm candy, victims, or love interests. Mostly, they existed to help the great white hetero hero on his fucking epic journey. When there was a heroine, she weighed very little, wore very little, and had had her teeth fixed.

Jule watched a shit-ton of movies. She knew that women were rarely the centers of such stories. Instead, they were eye candy, arm candy, victims, or love interests. Mostly, they existed to help the great white hetero hero on his fucking epic journey.

Well, you can laugh. It's kind of a hippopotamus and it's kind of a car. And also, it's kind of a church. The meaning is what the viewer sees in it.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

The artist, no less than the writer, needs a vocabulary before he can embark on a "copy" of reality.

The familiar will always remain the likely starting point for the rendering of the unfamiliar; an existing representation will always exert its spell over the artist even while he strives to record the truth.

All we're trying to do is word the world. Detail is one way we do that. We enumerate, notate, name the things seen.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres.

Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. As long as ours is a representative form of government, and our legislatures are those instruments of government elected directly by and directly representative of the people, the right to elect legislators in a free and unimpaired fashion is a bedrock of our political system.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

Have you got a flag?