Quotes About Representation

Donald Trump has always had women around him in powerful positions. That's true in his corporation, in his campaign, and now his cabinet.

29 to 30 million women voted for Donald Trump. Their voices are heard as well. They should be respected.

Tell him that PDP women in every nook and cranny, wherever we are, young or old, beautiful or ugly, tall or short, small or big, we are chanting to Nigerians: all we are saying, give us Goodluck.

I think country music is a champion of women. That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in the kitchen whipping up some biscuits.

I created EIDWIM20s as a voice for women like myself.

You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.

There has to be this balance of reality for a woman. I don't want to play women who just serve a purpose for the script.

I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.

What about good small roles for women? I've told my agent, if there are two great scenes in a film, I don't care, if it's something with that great edge to it.

I'm thrilled to be in sci-fi because they write the women very strong, and you don't often get that on television.

It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.

The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.

The feminist women's organization NOW has endorsed Carol Moseley-Braun for president. Once again NOW has shown it is so far behind the times it should change its name to THEN.

You want to see women your own age in films.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.

I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.

My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.