Quotes About Representation

For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

Leadership desperately needs women.

There's not a lot of positive role models of women in newspapers and magazines. I think it puts pressure on girls. They think that the image put out, it's the way you have to look.

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension it's about the lack of any texture.

We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.

It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way.

On days when I do not work, I am working on my image.

I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work.

Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening.

Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.