Marjorie Liu Quotes

I'd like to reach out to more women and different body types.

It's so important for women to create images of women - or any group, at that.

I like Marvel because characters look like me and women don't have roles that make them look too sexual.

If I'm in the position where I get to hire someone, where I get to decide who joins me on tour, then I am mindful about that, and I try to suggest women that I know who I think deserve more exposure.

We want the next generation of products being innovated to reflect our users. And when women are not part of the equation, we won't have products that reflect the unique needs and opportunities across our society.

Definitely, I feel that there is a need for more female producers, directors, and writers.

I work a lot with men, and I work with wonderful men that I absolutely adore, but it's something that I'm now paying attention to - to seek out and make room for the talented women in all the technical fields and creative fields across the board.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.

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.

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.

For the absolute avoidance of doubt, my leadership will be about unity, drawing on all the talents - with women representing half of the shadow cabinet - and working together at every level of the party.

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

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

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.'

It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.

I think it will be great if we have more female directors in the world.

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

With '2 Dope Queens,' we get the opportunity to love and enjoy each other and have fun being best friends and being women of color and talking about our personal experience. Also, we give an opportunity to elevate voices for many different people that otherwise would not get such a large platform.

I don't know any women who are one-dimensional, so why would I play one?

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.