Jameela Jamil
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
What would she want me to do?
Would she want me to stand up for myself right now?
Yeah, she probably fucking would.
Would you want me to spend time with this person?
Would she want me to take that job?
Would she want me to take this much scarier job?
So every decision I make is for her.
We're so encouraged to look back.
But women in particular are never encouraged to look forward.
We're encouraged to dread what is coming ahead.
So many of us ward her off.
And it's like, she knows what's up.
She's got all the answers.
She's having way more fun.
Whenever you watch interviews of women in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and you ask them, what would you have done differently?
It's almost always like, I wish I had not centered my life around a man, or I wish I had done more of what I wanted,