Quotes About Representation

Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.

Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads.

If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?

I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.

the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.

We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech

In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

I like to literally put women on a pedestal

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

Every time a woman runs, women win.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.

When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist. I really think it's important that people know that the women in this industry are empowered. They run it, man. It's awesome.

My goal is to help elect not only the first but second woman president. That will be real progress. I believe our next presidential election will see women at the top of the ticket for both parties.

I would say that I have an aspect of my personality which is that I have no personality. That's why I work as an agent. I have the assumed personality of the people I represent. I am like a sponge.

Every sponsor I've had has been something that fit my lifestyle, fit my personality.

I'm sponsored by Nike and stuff.

I love working with sponsors.

At the end of the day, if we don't show female sports on TV, how are sponsors going to want to sponsor women? And if we don't support the women, how do you expect us to get results? It's a bit of a catch-22.