Quotes About Representation

Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'

There are tons of amazing women out there for girls to emulate but the media isn't celebrating them to the masses.

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said, I'm an artist not only for men, but for women too. So that's why I like graffiti.

There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.

I hope more women will join us in our journey towards a more balanced political system.

I feel that the internal worlds of women are not that well represented by society. It is not an immediate thing people think about - the imagination of women or women's philosophy.

My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.

Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.

If more women would watch women's sports on TV it would urge [TV] executives to put more on.

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.

I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there are in ... important positions in society

Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be.

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

You do the best you can. But it's hard. When I find things egregiously misrepresentative of women, I'll make a point to say to my son, "Turn that off. I don't want to see women behave that way.

There are so many women out there relying on me to represent them.

Social media is something women didn't have 10 years ago, and that's a big aspect in feminism today. I don't have to be filtered by anyone. I choose.