Jill Soloway > Quotes

“I was so mad that because I am a woman it had fallen into my lap to organize the party, and also do everything else that created our children's lives: to buy clothes and make summer plans and babysitter arrangements and school deliverables and sports sign-ups and health forms...I'd never signed up for this role. All of my duties were assumed, no negotiation or divvying up of responsibilities, no questions asked.”
― Jill Soloway, She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy

“If I were a man I'd be in the top 1 percent of all fathers. As a mother, I was a complete and total failure.”
― Jill Soloway, She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy

“I think of my work as this kind of holy trinity — funny, dirty, sad. It's really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny. It's really easy to do sad, you just put on some sad music and write dramatically — everybody can do that. It's really hard to get dirty right.”
― Jill Soloway

“Can anyone calculate the dollar amount that has been spent to put duct tape over women's mouths in comparison to the amount these companies have paid women to write or direct? I want to compare the money spent on quieting every unspoken truth against every unsold screenplay, unpublished article, and rejected application.”
― Jill Soloway, She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy

“I am the opposite of most people: for me home is work and work is home. I breathe a sigh of relief when I am buried under the weight of immense work obligations, and I vibrate with anxiety when I imagine this thing called "relaxing" with a "cup of tea.”
― Jill Soloway