Latest Jo Brand Quotes from Interviews

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• I know there are certain men that hate women or don't like women, and in order to make women feel small, they tend to isolate them when they bully them. And women are often humiliated by it and feel they can't do anything about it. So my advice to women would be: there's always support around for those sorts of things and if you feel you're isolated in any way, or being bullied, you must talk to someone about it.

  Jo Brand

  Hate, Men, Order

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• There's something people do to you when they bully you that makes you feel like you're on your own. But don't keep things inside, it's really damaging if you do.

  Jo Brand

  People, Bully, Like You

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• I think I'd concentrate on young women - particularly girls at school - and I would try and build into school curriculums much more education about relationships and how girls (and boys) can handle them: stuff about consent and that sort of thing.

  Jo Brand

  Girl, School, Boys

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• I think it's so easy when you have children just to turn your focus inward on your family and because, when they're young, you don't sleep very much, you're walking around like a zombie most of the time anyway. It's a really important part of my life to have good friends, you have to work quite hard to keep the relationships going but it's worth it.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Sleep, Good Friend

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• I tried to eat better too, but when you're on tour you literally just eat some hideous pork pie on the motorway on the way to a show. It's a really unhealthy lifestyle: you're up late, drinking loads of coffee to stay awake, drinking loads of alcohol because you're socialising with people.

  Jo Brand

  Drinking, Coffee, Pie

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.

  Jo Brand

  Jobs, Done, Grim

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• On the whole, you can have a private life and be famous. But when milestones happen in your life like having children or getting married, privacy goes out of the window.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Privacy, Married

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• For a long time, people assumed I was gay, so when I got married the press were all a bit shocked and made a big deal of it - and ditto when I had children. I felt very much under the microscope with paps outside the house taking pictures of me getting the baby out of the car, it was excruciating. I remember getting her out of the car seat and thinking 'oh God I'm going to drop her and they're going to take a picture'. I was so nervous. Those sorts of things are really hard.

  Jo Brand

  Baby, Children, Gay

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• There's still this underlying image of women that they should fulfil a certain role. It's no accident that a lot of men who are a bit misogynistic tend to say things like 'get back to the kitchen' or 'why aren't you at home looking after the kids'.

  Jo Brand

  Home, Kids, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• I think people tend to believe that women who are successful are probably neglecting their children, possibly a bit hard-nosed and that they don't really support other women very much - that they're men-haters and ball-breakers. I've certainly been on the receiving end of those 'compliments' for most of my career.

  Jo Brand

  Children, Believe, Successful

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• Having done a normal job for 10 years, as a psychiatric nurse dealing with emergencies, I know what terrible, hopeless lives some people have. So in many ways, it's great to be able to wield the financial power that I can, and do gigs, fundraisers or give money. I feel lucky I can help out.

  Jo Brand

  Jobs, Years, Nurse

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• Usually, what people in the public eye do is pick two charities and just exclusively work for them. But that means you have to turn people down all the time, so I try and do something for everyone that asks me, at least once.

  Jo Brand

  Mean, Eye, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

• I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.

  Jo Brand

  Thinking, Way, Tough

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk