Quotes About Representation

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

It was unfortunate for other women who might come after [Margaret Thatcher] that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.

When women participate in politics, the effects ripple out across society... Women are the world's most underused resource.

We don't think about women being leaders.

If fighting for working families is playing the women's card, you know what, deal me in.

I have two daughters, it really means a lot to me to have two women standing now and being the PM.

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.

Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.

"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

Open source is important to our orgs as a talent pool; we need better representation of women.

Seeing women on television was very important to me. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of women's sports. It showed me what I could do and who I could be.

More women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women.

Norway's a very gender-aware country, and we're very liberal. There are lots of women's voices being heard here compared to many other countries.

Women's voices, LGBT voices, and the voices of people of color are all needed in any art form if we want to explore the true possibilities of that art form. Diversity is strength.

When it comes to diversity, women are still underrepresented in so many different places, but one place we're not underrepresented is we hold a majority of the household income, and we control that.