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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.

— Jessica Marais

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

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

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.

We are less forgiving of female mistakes in general.

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.

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