Alice Dreger Quotes

Our culture tends to denigrate things that are associated with women. It's OK for women to wear trousers, for example, but not OK for men to wear skirts.

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.

Women's tennis? I think it stinks. They hit the ball back and forth, have a lot of nice volleys, and you can see some pretty legs. But it's night and day compared to men's tennis.

The minute you step into a job where you have to be at all tough and assertive, that's when the mischief happens. And you're not allowed to be assertive and feminine.

Gender perception can be a pernicious thing: Where a lack of warmth passes in a male, in a woman, it's deadly.

When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.

Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

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.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

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

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

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.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

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.

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.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

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.

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.