Quotes About Representation

The female genital is symbolically represented by all those objects which share its peculiarity of enclosing a space capable of being filled by something—viz., by pits, caves, and hollows, by pitchers and bottles, by boxes and trunks, jars, cases, pockets, etc. Theship, too, belongs in this category.

George Balanchine said, If you put a group of men on the stage, you have a group of men, but if you put a group of women on the stage you have the whole world.

Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it. Like people whose memories of places they've traveled to are in fact only memories of the pictures they took there. In the end, writing and photography probably destroy more of the past than they ever preserve of it. So it could happen: by writing about someone lost—or even just talking too much about them—you might be burying them for good.

What's new is the idea that it's the people with the history of greatest injustice who have the greatest right to be heard, and that the time has come for the arts not just to make room for them but to be dominated by them.

All over America, people are making kamikaze choices about what to wear. They are misrepresenting the goods. They are letting their clothes write checks that their personalities cannot cash.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

Women's entire history has been written by men.

Die Vorstellung der Welt ist, wie die Welt selbst, das Produkt der Männer: Sie beschreiben sie von ihrem Standpunkt aus, den sie mit dem der absoluten Wahrheit gleichsetzen.

A representação do mundo, como o próprio mundo, é operação dos homens; eles descrevem-no do ponto de vista que lhes é peculiar, e que confundem com a verdade absoluta.

We pretend that our present system is democratic, yet the people never have the chance nor the means to express their views on any problem of public life. Any issue that does not pertain to particular interests is abandoned to collective passions, which are systematically and officially inflamed.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

A Godly life is always the best advertisement for Christianity.

I am one who believes that the people's views and values are represented by those who they elect in the legislative branch and not unelected federal judges appointed for life.

I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life character's costume.

In the case of judges, I wouldn't be shocked to find out the number on television exceeds the number in real life — what is it about those black robes that makes us think ovaries?

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

There just aren't enough positive portrayals of Latino life in film.

Your good character and attitude should be your message to the world.

The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.

Dual Representational Theory. Stated formally, it describes our ability to attribute characteristics and meanings to things that don't actually possess them.

Christ has taken our nature into heaven   to represent us, and has left us on earth   with his nature to represent him."                                       - John Newton

A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.