Lexi Alexander Quotes

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

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

Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.

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

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.

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

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

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

There are some professions that culturally and sociologically take a long time to change, and because of that, there's still sexism in comedy audiences. We shouldn't blame them: I do it too. A woman comes on, and I feel slightly anxious. I'm a woman in comedy, and I do that; I think everyone does.

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

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.