Jo Brand Quotes

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

I try not to write songs in which men glamorize their own need for approval from women. That's kinda a bogus way to go out. But I try to do this quietly. I'm not about to go around telling people how they should or shouldn't think. My feminism is for me.

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

I mean a song that's specifically for the girls. It's saying you know we talk about them night and day, we're constantly pondering on men and what they've done good and what they've done bad and all these things in our lives.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

All women like to look up to their men.

All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.

Women don't try to use me.

Let's be very clear: Strong men - men who are truly role models - don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

We've got to change the language of how women speak to women and how men speak to women and how we shame them for the decisions that we make.

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

Men are mostly raised by women. Most men have not seen an authoritative woman since they were 8. They associate women in authority with childhood.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for changes still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves

American women don't need to be lectured about values by men in Washington.

All theories of chivalry and generosity and vicarious representation fall, before the fact that woman has been grossly wronged by man. That being the case, the only modest and honest thing for man to do is to say, "Henceforward have a voice in making your own laws." Till this is done, she has no sure safeguard, since otherwise the same men who made the old barbarous laws may at any time restore them.

You know what they say, ‘Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man.

The emancipation of women will only be possible if the traditional world of men also changes.