Quotes About Representation

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

I think women have made progress in cinematography, contrary to women directors, who I think have regressed. There are many more women cinematographers than when I started.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.

Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.

Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.

I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

The Republican Party is extremely pro-women.

We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

I'm representing women in a cool way

I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not.

The more women we elect to public office, the more wholesome the whole process will be, whether it's government, politics, whatever.

You don't want the men to be written in a three-dimensional way and the women, not.

With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.

I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.

I think the media's a little frightened of women.