Quotes About Representation

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Bridesmaids proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

Women can do anything, and I want to see that. I want them to make more movies for girls, and just for girls. I want studios to start doing that.

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China's millions of women by going into space.

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women.

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

Tech is not looking for inclusion per se, but they're looking for assimilation. They're looking for Blacks and Latinos and women, but they are looking for these groups as versions of themselves.