Quotes About Representation

It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.

Visibility is not equality.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Clearly, I'm committed to women's issues and stories and promoting gender equality. I have two incredible role models in Jenji [Kohan] and Shonda [Rhimes].

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.

Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can...

The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.

I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.

Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.

So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.

My president is black, my senator is a lesbian and my congressman is gay. This is not your grandparents' America, and I'm ok with that.

Polly laughed to think how outraged Lucas would be that she'd chosen one of Britney Spears's perfumes to represent him, but the name- Rocker Femme- and the sweet gourmand mix was just perfect for him. It opened with blackberry liqueur and coconut cream, which made her think of one of his horrible biscuits...

If you're looking for sexual tidbits as a female child, and the only ones that present themselves depict child rape or other violations...then your sexuality will form around that fact.

Las palabras no se parecen a las cosas que designan (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)