Quotes About Representation

Christ has no body on Earth but ours.

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate.

saw clear as day what was going to happen: these white men would erase us. Not just me, but all of us. The noble and the wicked. Wager and Vikers. Lemuel and Caldwell. No history book would show us putting up the telegraph lines and guarding the stagecoaches, tracking Indians and making the West safe. Hell, they might not even show the armies of black cowboys that rode the Texas ranges. Or any of our boys who fought in the Rebellion. Solomon? Would they erase Solomon, too?

For a long time, just skating in the Olympics had been my goal because not many Koreans had done it.

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

I think it's about time that we represent all women on the catwalk because that is a part of fashion. The way I see it, there's no wrong way to be a woman.

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.

I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it.

It's about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

The sexual is part of everything, and it's highly formalized. I hadn't done figure for a long time. And I thought to myself, "Why not the erotic figure?"

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at that time.

During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.