Quotes About Representation

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

I don't think we'll see a 'Real Housewives of Koreatown' anytime soon, but here's hoping.

You only ever see four women leads on TV today in the 'Housewives' shows.

Outside of the gay world, I don't know how many people know me.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Being the first female Doctor and showing children that their heroes in shows don't always look the same is a huge honour for me.

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

It's really important to remember that disability is diversity, and that disabled actors and disabilities are something that is hugely under-represented in film.

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.

If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses.

We must be humble and listen to the people who elected us to lead.

For years, humorous characters in cartoons have been almost exclusively male.

While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'

As cheesy as it might sound, I've got to give credit to movies like 'The Hunger Games' and 'Divergent' because they are stories written about young heroines. It's not just about super guys any more.

All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.

The theory of thought is like painting: it needs that revolution which took art from representation to abstraction. This is the aim of a theory of thought without image.

Identity and resemblance would then be no more than inevitable illusions - in other words, concepts of reflection which would account for our inveterate habit of thinking difference on the basis of the categories of representation.

Por doquier la máscara, el disfraz, lo vestido, la verdad de lo desnudo. El verdadero sujeto de la repetición es la máscara. Porque la repetición difiere por naturaleza de la representación, lo repetido no puede ser representado, sino que debe ser siempre significado, enmascarado por lo que significa, enmascarando, a su vez, lo que significa.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxipad commercial, Windex commercial. You'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxipad commercial, Windex commercial. You'd think all women do is clean and bleed. And

To slur "feminism" into "humanism" is to usurp women's voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine.