Dianne Feinstein Quotes

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.

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

f you don't have a seat at the table, then bring a folding chair.

The demographic complexity of this country should be reflected not only at the end of the chain, but since the beginning, in order that more of these people can be excited and integrated.

I can't imagine how hard it must be to invest in a community... when you don't feel heard and when you don't feel seen.

You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.

I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge.

In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.

At the end of the day, what I have is the power to give a louder voice to people who have issues, questions and problems.

Open a door for the disaffected of your State to come in.

Advocacy is a faith commitment to be part of God's plan for a just world - a world where each person's dignity and worth is valued. A world where everyone has a say in decisions that affect their lives.

Listening to an underserved population is how you begin to understand them and serve them better.

The people need someone who's closer to them and the American people need someone who will be their change agent and fight for the issues that are important to them.

I want to keep doing projects that speak for people within the community and tell different types of meaningful stories.

I'm just trying to stretch the public space wider and make it more open so that a wider variety of people and faces and stories and perspectives and also expertise can come through. So everything that I do rests on that, trying to support on other voices.

Diversity matters. You want your city departments to look like the city.

When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.

I think it's important for not just me but women of color, trans women, and people who are marginalized to be telling stories of themselves. It's important for us to be behind the lens.

Governments and civil society must step up to ensure inclusivity in the commissioning, design, delivery, and assessment of vital public services.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.