Kathy Szeliga Quotes

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

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

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.

People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.

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.

It's a good addition to get a female perspective.

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

It can be very challenging to be what you can't see. Think about it in the physical world. You walk into a room, and no one looks like you. Can you relate to them? Do you feel welcome? Let's stop talking about how men dominate the technology industry and instead focus on the women who are killing it.

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.

If there is one thing that resonates for women, it is that regardless of where we come from or what we look like, we want to be fully recognized for the breadth of our contributions.

It's been great to see broadcasters waking up to the fact that women do offer a different perspective.

I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

We have to start encouraging women to get into math and science early on in life... But to just say TechCrunch is perpetuating the problem because there aren't enough women speakers at our events is just a way to get attention and not solve the problem. So do we want to solve the problem, or do we want to just pick on me?

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

Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.

By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

'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!'

When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

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.