Alex Borstein Quotes

Girls are hard. They're very hard. I love my son. I hear the relationship between mommy and son is the best. Who knows? My husband wants a girl, he really does.

I have five children. There were four boys. The fifth, I got weak, and a girl came.

Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.

My mother always wanted a boy. My father never did.

I always wanted a girl growing up, as well as a boy, so to have a girl first is just really exciting.

I would infinitely prefer a daughter.

My father always defined my gender to my brothers. He'd say, 'This is your sister; you must take care of her.'

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always.

Stern and critical, my father couldn't accept how feminine and dainty I was in comparison to my rough-and-tumble brother.

I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.

My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.

As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.

The pedestal that women were placed upon often turned out to be a cage.