Latest Jill Soloway Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?

  Jill Soloway

  Leader, Female

  Source: www.glamour.com

• It's assumed that if you're a woman, you want to be the prettiest version of yourself. It always put me in a bad mood. It was like, "OK, I'm successful. I'm supposed to be happy. Well, why aren't I happy?" Part of the problem was that my looked-at-ness had become a priority over my art making. Over and over again it was like, "I don't have time for this. I want to work." I love writing. I don't love somebody putting false eyelashes on me.

  Jill Soloway

  Art, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy and all that kinda stuff. So I actually have the secret belief that there are enough people who would consider themselves quote-unquote "other" to support my particular taste.

  Jill Soloway

  Dream, People, Support

  Source: uproxx.com

• So for me to actually have access to women, to feminist women, to gay people, to trans people, to intellectuals, iconoclasts, weirdos, academics, just the people who don't normally get marketed to, in some way I kinda hoped that if I could collect all of them, I could say, "Hey! Look over here! There are enough people who like my stuff." And it sorta has seemed to be true.

  Jill Soloway

  Gay, People, Feminist

  Source: uproxx.com

• I think people don't really actually talk about what their real issue is, which is that white, cis men - not straight men, but cis men - have had their hands on the narrative ever since filmmaking has begun.

  Jill Soloway

  Real, Thinking, Men

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives in history have been white cis men. Most of the people who have been giving awards to people are people who've already been in the business - retired white cis men. They've been creating a body of narrative forever.

  Jill Soloway

  Men, White, Creating

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

  Jill Soloway

  Men, Style, Feminine

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

  Jill Soloway

  Running, Men, Rooms

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I want women to be the subject, not the object.

  Jill Soloway

  Want, I Want A Woman, Subjects

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I'd always have a sort of automatic urge to share what I'm doing with other people.

  Jill Soloway

  People, Share, Urges

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• One of the things that feels so challenging is how questioning Israel and the idea of a Jewish state somehow opens the door for other sorts of questions - and wounds.

  Jill Soloway

  Israel, Doors, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

• I said to my parents that I don't even know if there should be an Israel. And they were just so upset and hurt.

  Jill Soloway

  Hurt, Israel, Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

• It's interesting to think about the history of Israel in relation to the history of the U.S.. There were Native Americans living here that U.S. settlers totally displaced, and that narrative is not connected with the Isreal-Palestinian struggle at all.

  Jill Soloway

  Struggle, Native American, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.

  Jill Soloway

  School, Madagascar, Politician

  Source: therumpus.net

• In the little travel I've done to other countries, the Jews there embraced me saying, Come to our house, come and have Shabbat with us. Jews in the Diaspora. I didn't imagine an Israeli traveling to the U.S. would feel this intensity of a forced relationship.

  Jill Soloway

  Country, House, Done

  Source: therumpus.net

• I've always wondered what it means to the Republican Party to be pro-Israel. My husband says that is is because certain sects of Christianity need Jews in Israel for the second coming.

  Jill Soloway

  Husband, Party, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

• There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a more personal level. He had moved to the Fairfax area, not realizing that it's a super Jewish part of L.A. He told me, I don't understand why American Jews feel this connection with me. I was embarrassed because I was feeling that connection with him, too!

  Jill Soloway

  School, Artist, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

• So much of the United State's political relationship with Israel is based on culture. Israel is the only Westernized culture in the region and the Middle Eastern countries bordering Israel are Arab, which is a totally different society. Even though Israel doesn't exactly feel like the United States, by comparison to its neighbors it's very Western.

  Jill Soloway

  Country, Israel, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

• Sometimes it seems like America is the Christian and Israel is the little Jew they love in this fetishistic way. Like, you're my little sister and I'll kick anyone's ass that messes with you. But when we're alone and no one's looking I'll harass you.

  Jill Soloway

  Christian, Israel, America

  Source: therumpus.net

• You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.

  Jill Soloway

  Order, Way, Heal

  Source: therumpus.net

• I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.

  Jill Soloway

  Kids, Holocaust, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

• I was talking to my friend who's Israeli and she said that from the moment you're born, you're taught to hate the Palestinians. That's it. That's your life. That's what you learn from day one.

  Jill Soloway

  Hate, Talking, Taught

  Source: therumpus.net

• I remember learning about the Holocaust when I was in kindergarten and being terrified. I think we even watched a graphic video about it in Jewish day school. Although I was quite young, I remember making these vows to myself such as, I'm never going to love my country so much that I can't leave in a moment's notice.

  Jill Soloway

  Country, School, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• Many of our holidays revolve around traumas that happened to our people and how we must remember them in specific ways. The way these stories are told and what we take away from them can change, and do in certain contexts, but overall I am not sure whether Jews want to let go of the narrative of the victim.

  Jill Soloway

  Letting Go, Holiday, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• Fear of anti-Semitism almost is part of our religion. Throughout time Jewish people have experienced traumas that we relive in a lot of the things we celebrate.

  Jill Soloway

  People, Celebrate, Trauma

  Source: therumpus.net