Quotes About Representation

I like strong women. Strong women characters have always existed in the movies of directors such as K. Balachander and Mani Ratnam.

Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.

I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

It's frustrating we still don't see more movies featuring strong women.

I've played lots of strong women in film, in big Hollywood films, and I've sometimes had a hard time in coming to a consensus of what makes a woman strong.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

I want the voice of developing countries to be stronger.

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

Vote SNP for a party that always stands up for Scotland, that is stronger for Scotland, and a government that will keep the country moving in the right direction.

I always thought the list needed to be longer. We needed to have a stronger representation of Jewish athletes, and I'm so happy to that I'm part of them now.

A lot of times, politicians will go to where their strongest force is and do things for them, and that's the type of thing they do that I find offensive.

What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.

What I feel most strongly here being in Congress is kind of the burden - the good burden - of representing all of our military.

I'm not representing any organization. I represent the people of Ohio, and a lot of people in Ohio feel very strongly about their Second Amendment rights.

If members of Congress believe so strongly that government-run health care is the best solution for hard working American families, I think it only fitting that Americans see them lead the way.

I believe very, very strongly that when you serve, you serve the entire state.

One of the things 'Cosmo' feels really strongly about is we need more women candidates running, and we need more women across the parties in D.C.

Of course I worry about whitewashing, and I feel very strongly that whitewashing was, is, and continues to be a problem in entertainment.

Indeed, it is measure of how little we know about Cleopatra that the only images of her are either the coins she struck, bearing very unflattering official portraits of her, or some doubtful busts, which may be of other women imitating her coiffure.

I was six years old when 'The Little Mermaid' was released in 1989 and was immediately struck by the fiery-maned, melodic-voiced, tail-swinging mermaid protagonist. She spoke to me on levels deeper than her father's oceanic kingdom.

There are structural problems within the industry that are preventing us from displaying aspirational black roles.