Quotes About Representation

I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.

I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'

Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.

Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

Without your voice being heard in Washington, the decisions we make aren't as good. I would urge women to consider public service. And if you want to run, give me a call. I'll help.

The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so why then are we doing it to our fictitious heroines?

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.

Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman.

Mothers and unmarried women and married women, they're all welcomed in the Trump White House, and he's made that very clear to me.

If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.

There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.