Quotes About Representation

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

I was interested in working on a show that was driven by women.

I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.

Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table

We've got to get women to sit at the table.

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

Women at my age they are making love, they are feeling sensual, they flirt, they have boyfriends, they have a sexual life. They are just not being represented in the movies.

Everybody else is going to react differently to the film [Aquarius], but what I love about it is that both men and women are going to react to it because they will find themselves represented.

Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.

My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk

I think we need to be fighting for the working men and women of this country, not the moneyed New York interests.

The fashion industry at large has been the worst public relations vehicle for larger women and petite women, they are both maligned and neglected. And I honestly do believe it's getting better.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.

It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election.

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.

The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.

I would love to walk into a mall and see more than two or three stores that cater to women who are a size 14 and up!

Only 8 percent of peace talks have included women at any level.

Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.

I predict an hour when the term Women In Art will be as strange sounding a topic as the title Men In Art would be now.