Pramila Jayapal Quotes

I feel that for a lot of my career, I had success, I was adored, but I was also this alien creature. I want to show that I have the skill like any other female model, and I'm asking for the same equal treatment and equal respect as any other female model.

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.

Give the girls a chance.

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 hope to show the great worth of women. So far as I'm concerned, we're still underappreciated.

What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.

One thing I do not see happening is women of certain age being represented correctly. We have to evolve conceptually.

We just want to be sure that what we're creating is pushing the ball forward for women and diversity in media.

I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.

I want things to be great for people of color and for women.

We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

We must tell girls their voices are important.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

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.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

'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'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.

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

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.

I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.