Sarah Michelle Gellar Quotes

Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn't we just make something new?

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.

We try and give as much diversity to our show as possible. That's something that's very strong in our show: there are so many strong female leads in 'The 100.'

People keep saying how amazing it is having a female lead, and I just sort of feel, 'Well, of course!'

I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still be able to make it.

I think the main struggle for women in Hollywood and women in my position is to fight for true representation in the media and accurate representation of our many diverse qualities in stories.

I think it's really important that women are represented in the media, and diverse women as well.

I never thought of myself as a woman leader or Latina leader; I just thought of myself as a leader.

One of the things about the Constitution - that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there. There were none of our fore-sisters there. There are changes that can take place, and there is room to change.

I don't want it to be a mission, but of course I always love to see more diversity in comics. I always love to see more women.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.

I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!'

I do find that when I see women who flesh out the television or film world and make it look more like the world I actually live in, I gravitate towards those characters.

I want to see more girls coming in to the sport. There were actually a lot in Canada when I was riding there, but we can let girls know that they can be jockeys. And if they can't be jockeys, why can't they be owners or trainers? We need to invite girls in.

There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality.

What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.