Quotes About Representation

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women

There are so many untold stories when it comes to great women of color.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at the center applies to everyone.

Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.

It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.

I really want to help write women back into history.

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.

Women could get it done...That's why we need more women to run so we have more women in power to make decisions.