109 Quotes About Representation

Nobody’s authentic on the internet-internet, really; they’re just a calculated representation of themselves, even when anonymous.

Language is a person's signature, like his fingerprints. It contains his birth and growth, memories and past.

It is clear that now the war for legal equality has been won, the war for lover’s parity has begun.

As the waiter led them among the tables, Nicolas saw that Madeline was by no means the only woman dressed as a man, or vise versa in the crowd.

I yearned for these other worlds where magic empowers people who understood it because I wanted to change my world, my place in it. I wanted to either be more visible, seen for who I am in my entirety and respected for it... or else I wanted to be even more invisible, protected from a world that would attempt to destroy me if others knew I was unlike them. That I was other. That I was queer

Big government = oligarchy. Simple equation. Big government = loss of representation.

All I ever wanted was for our story— the story of me and Mark told through the eyes of a non-sexual narrator— I wanted that story to be available so that other people who might never see themselves in print could have someone to identify with.

The problem of self-loathing isn't new. What's new is the idea that it's the people with the history of greatest injustice who have the greatest right to be heard, and that the time has come for the arts not just to make room for them but to be dominated by them.

Woman must write herself and bring woman into literature