Quotes About Representation

I want to steer away from the stereotypes that Latina women are categorized in. I feel like there are so many more opportunities for us. I like going out for those roles that says open ethnicity.

I like films where there's a relationship between two women. I always think that's lovely to watch on the screen.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Women are often only in the media to be victimised or objectified

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988.

I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.

There are not many good roles for women.

The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

I get to represent a lot of different types of women because of my ability to transform into these different people.

I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There's not enough women like that on the screen.

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

I want to see more women as producers.