Quotes About Equality

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

The war against sexism is portrayed increasingly a battle long ago won. To which my response is, 'if only'.

I think that 'Gilmore Girls' did so many things well, and it was a very feminist show in a time when that wasn't really being portrayed at all.

I'm getting really fed up with the way that girls and women get portrayed a lot of the time.

We shouldn't expect women to have it all and manage it all and I certainly don't want to be portrayed in that way - I think it's a very negative message to send women.

Most important, in portraying gay people... it's just like portraying anybody else.

I don't think people should be afraid of portraying people with accents, especially Asian accents.

Everyone that's ever seen 'Pose' who isn't trans or doesn't have any connection to the LGBTQ community has been given the opportunity to create empathetic relationships to the characters that they would not have otherwise been able to. That's super essential in helping counter homophobia and transphobia.

If I had seen 'Pose' in the years I was a kid, it would have probably meant everything to me.

An online store cuts through the inhibitors that retail poses. It doesn't matter which city you live in or what income bracket you fall into, as long as you're interested in learning.

I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

I am not posh. I went to a comprehensive school.

The first time I ever met posh people was when I went to Manchester University to study drama, but I couldn't care less about people's backgrounds - it's all down to the individual.

A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.

I do work really hard to be nice to people. Well, actually, I think it doesn't take much effort to be nice to people, so why shouldn't we all be nice to each other? But I do appreciate very much a woman who is in a position of power who is unapologetic about her position and her belief in her own abilities.

I tell you, if I was in the same position I was in 1975, trying to leave a communist country and trying to live a free life, America is not the country that I would think about going to considering how many rights the GOP is trying to take away.

One of the things that I'm trying to do is use the position that I'm in... to encourage the next generation of girls to think about the Internet as a career opportunity.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.

I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.

I'm an advocate for women to become more aware of the different positions in the music industry.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power.