Jessica Marais Quotes

Loving yourself is so important, when you achieve this you’ll be capable of fully loving someone else.

We are less forgiving of female mistakes in general.

When you hit 30 I think, inevitably, whether you’ve had children or not, I think you re-evaluate your life a little bit.

I just think people in the creative industries... crave normalcy and stability and the mundane, and then I also crave producing, writing, developing and working on both sides of the camera.

It's human nature to put people on a pedestal.

They are both women trying to exist in a patriarchal world, and it’s interesting that they’re decades apart in time but facing similar problems, which is again, an age-old issue.

I think we’re held to a higher standard because we’re meant to be mothers, and I think the Madonna-whore complex still exists quite a lot.

I just think with boys they get away with being lads and cowboys and it’s an age-old myth that’s existed for a very long time. And I don’t really know how we fight it or change it.