Quotes About Media

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wanted to be part of.

Women are not totally nauseous after seeing me.

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at the center applies to everyone.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they're being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines

Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

There are tons of amazing women out there for girls to emulate but the media isn't celebrating them to the masses.

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.

Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for clothes, but it's not what you want in real life. Why do we have to keep looking at ourselves and measuring?

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

You do the best you can. But it's hard. When I find things egregiously misrepresentative of women, I'll make a point to say to my son, "Turn that off. I don't want to see women behave that way.