Quotes About Representation

The majority vote means not that one becomes a leader; it means one embraces and accepts the burden of the voters' voice as leadership to show and prove a genuine leader, accomplishing the liability of votes on its right and beneficial place. Otherwise, it turns into a political failure and a grave, and it is not a genius leader's reflection and definition.

in the first two years the child adapts an overall strategy or mental representation of the world which can be quite enduring.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

La nueva carne viva copiaba en broma a la vieja, éramos una cadena de sombras que desde siempre se representaba con la misma carga de amor, odio, deseos y violencia.

I discovered everywhere female automations created by men. There was nothing of ourselves, and the little there was that rose up in protest immediately became material for their manufacturing.

Desde hacía un tiempo yo no distinguía entre zonas públicas y privadas, no me importada que la gente me oyera y juzgara, advertía un fuerte deseo de representar mi rabia como si estuviera sobre un escenario. Cógela, le grité, no la soporto

Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.

We want people to represent us in politics—and in love and economics too. When people represent us fully, they are ourselves and are not ourselves. When an object is simultaneously the same as and different from the person concerned with it—or considering it—aesthetics is there.

I didn't identify with anyone in any paintings.

Music more aptly represents human emotional processes because music, like life, appears to be in constant motion.

One of those pretty boys we put up front to avoid being accused of only putting pretty girls up there.

It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which is above all a space to fill and a place where something happens, the language of words may have to give way before a language of signs whose objective aspect is the one that has the most immediate impact upon us.

pictures of pictures, or of other

Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Thus, then ... are the three differences which distinguish artistic imitation: the medium, the objects, and the manner.

Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character comes in as subsidiary to the actions. Hence the incidents and the plot are the end of a tragedy; and the end is the chief thing of all.

Since the objects of imitation are men in action, and these men must be either of a higher or a lower type (for moral character mainly answers to these divisions, goodness and badness being the distinguishing marks of moral differences), it follows that we must represent men either as better than in real life, or as worse, or as they are.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The broadest usage of the term is for a formal representation or specification of what is common sense or objective reality to a human being.

The stock image of the early twentieth century, the "Negro" minstrel, a rural simpleton, the journalist Barbara Ehrenreich notes, has now been upgraded, whitened, and continued in such television programs as Duck Dynasty and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.