Quotes About Representation

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

Because linguistic expressions prompt for meanings rather than represent meanings, linguistic systems do not have to be, and in fact cannot be, analogues of conceptual systems. Prompting for meaning construction is a job they can do; representing meanings is not.

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

Cultural patterns in the media mattered too.

What is the line between the living female body and the dysfunctional portrait that has been drawn of it in literature and psychology and medicine?

People across the earth are aching to serve as your ambassadors in one form or another. Let them.

En nuestra vida cotidiana hay rastros que no podemos explicar y acaso sean totalmente nimios. Sin embargo, su representación mediante un dispositivo de localización... les confiere significado, lo que al parecer exige dar una cantidad tremenda de justificaciones. Esto genera ansiedades, sobre todo en las relaciones íntimas, en las que las personas quizá sientan una mayor presión para explicar cosas que simplemente no son capaces de explicar.

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.

Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.

The first step toward speaking for others is speaking for ourselves.

In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also understimated, but the truth is that, if people realize someone is willing to talk about these deep and daily concerns, they show up.

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

The media are not reality; reality is reality.

Among their first questions was said to be: Where are the women?

This was a small taste of a general problem: the invisibility in the media of the many women of color who pioneered the women's movement.

American travel seems to need an advocate.

It was a constitutional convention for the female half of the country. After all, we had been excluded from the first one.

when God is depicted only as a white man, only white men seem godly. They

People nod at the idea that when God is depicted inly as a white man, only white men seem godly. They laugh at the idea that priests dressed in skirts try to trump women's birth-giving power by baptising with imitation birth fluid, calling us reborn, and going women one better by promising everlasting life.

Older women especially saw Hillary Clinton as their last and best chance to see a woman in the White House. And not just any woman:7 as one said, "This isn't just about biology. We don't want a Margaret Thatcher, who cut off milk for schoolchildren.

Older women especially saw Hillary Clinton as their last and best chance to see a woman in the White House. And not just any woman:7 as one said, "This isn't just about biology. We don't want a Margaret Thatcher, who cut off milk for schoolchildren." They

Older women especially saw Hillary Clinton as their last and best chance to see a woman in the White House. And not just any woman:7 as one said, "This isn't just about biology. We don't want a Margaret Thatcher, who cut off milk for schoolchildren." They wanted Hillary Clinton because she supported the majority interests of women. On

self-esteem as the prerequisite for democracy – and for equal power within a democracy