Quotes About Representation

For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

I wanna try being a waiter at restaurant or work to introduce Korea to other people!

Power corrupts and there is way too much corrupted power. Stand up and monitor the government that is supposed to work for us. That's what the Tea Party represents.

My work may feature brown faces but it could be anybody's story.

I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

Women should work with local and state leaders and be vocal about ensuring there's more diversity and more women involved.

My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.

We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.

The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.

I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms.

You have to be yourself, as models come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There are girls out there who are more voluptuous and they work better for different sorts of stories.

I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

I've come to be pretty selective about the type of advocacy that I do, because I kind of feel like it's stronger to just do my work and let it speak for itself.

I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.

When I work with filmmakers today, I'm really an advocate for the women's roles that I see, to make them as layered and as deep as possible. I think many of them are underwritten.

When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking because people hadn't seen a woman actually riding a motorcycle before.

I think people in my district expect me to work with the president. It doesn't mean we have to agree all the time. I don't feel any extra pressure.