Quotes About Representation

Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists; if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for financial gain.

Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.

Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and people who don't identify as women.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

I think when we were starting off, I picked a group of women to represent me. The top tiers of everyone that I've worked with are women. It felt more comfortable because they can relate to me.

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

I do not want these women-centric films, or... what's that term? ...mahila-pradhan films as everyone calls them.

I think Shonda Rhimes came to change television for women forever.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society.

I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.