Representation Quotes

"In my mind, the plays I was reading in college, they all had gay characters or trans characters in them" "I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life" "My hope for the future of Hollywood is that we get to be ourselves and tell accurate stories about who we are." "The image is everything" "Kim has a lot of powers of attorney, lay off it." "I want to tell stories that resonate with people and make them feel seen and heard." "I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim, no taxation without representation" "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." "A democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few" "I too am America" "Writing is itself but the representation of speech" "Women make up more than half of the world's population and potential, so it is neither just nor practical for their voices, for our voices, to go unheard at the highest levels of decision-making." "Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge" "I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last." "The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life." "We ain't thugs for the sake of just being thugs" "To be somebody and not just a great black poet " "Everything is a symbol of something else." "Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent" "I think women, we are very interesting. We have a lot to say, and sometimes it's frustrating how all the lead parts are for men"