Alpha Quote by Iliza Shlesinger

I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a bunch of…

— Ashton Sanders

the whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could…

— Ellen Wittlinger

I think I've actually had a pretty standard upbringing. My parents are really normal, so I've always had them around to keep me grounded.

— Sophie Lowe

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

— Dolly Parton

It always bothered me when people would think the joke was that I was playing a woman. I never saw myself as a boy…

— Cole Escola

When I was in my 20s, I think there was a lot of really arcane male behaviour that wasn't even questioned.

— Lesley Sharp

I really did have a very egalitarian upbringing.

— Michael Moorcock

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV -…

— Junot Diaz

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

— Peter Dinklage

“When did you first feel like a grown woman and not a girl?” We wrote down our answers and shared them, first in pairs,…

— Tina Fey

I did not have any problem with speaking up because my mother, my family, my grandmother, my aunt - I grew up in a…

— Ava DuVernay

I'm not the ideal male. But when my daughter was born, I became more aware of the society she would grow in.

— Mahesh Manjrekar