Alice Lowe Quotes

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.”

Once, I was going to a film event, and someone told me not to wear high heels to it. They said that it might intimidate the men. For some reason, I was ready to take their cue, but about an hour later, something in my head started ringing, and I thought, 'That is the worst advice anybody's ever given me.'

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

My biggest struggle being a woman in the workforce has not only been with my mother, my grandmother, and a lot of my girlfriends. When I'm working late hours, I'm almost punished for it by them. It's almost absurd that I would prioritize work over catching up with my girlfriends. If I were a man, that would just come second nature.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.

A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

Just because I'm a woman does not mean I have to deal with everything to do with food.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.