Quotes About Representation

I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they're being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

I am thrilled and honored to have a seat at the table for meaningful conversation with so many accomplished women in the sports world.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

Jessica Pearson isn't a unicorn. She's not a mythological creature. She's an example of so many women out there that are ruling their part of the world and doing an incredible job.

When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.