Jessica Valenti

There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're…

— Jessica Valenti

At the end of the day, though, the entire basis for consent laws doesn't make sense. We're not old enough to decide…

— Jessica Valenti

It used to be that if someone was to get involved in feminism, it was probably because they were already interested. They…

— Jessica Valenti

...idea at play here is that of “morality.” When young women are taught about morality, there’s not often talk of compassion, kindness,…

— Jessica Valenti

I think we get into very dangerous territory when we start to define who can and cannot be a feminist. It's such…

— Jessica Valenti

I think that it's incredibly important that we're actually paying attention to the feminism that's going on on the ground in different…

— Jessica Valenti

The Internet is the new public space. And because women are out in public, people don't like that in much the same…

— Jessica Valenti

And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do…

— Jessica Valenti

One of the things I really like about doing work online, and the thing I like about the work I'm doing now,…

— Jessica Valenti

For a lot of women who don't go to college, or for a lot of women who aren't in New York or…

— Jessica Valenti

It used to be, if you wanted to have a strong, influential voice in the feminist movement, you really needed to be…

— Jessica Valenti

We've been growing our readership every month, and we're kind of like, where are they all coming from? This is wonderful! And…

— Jessica Valenti

I think that the ideal of young womanhood as it's seen in pop culture specifically is a really kind of vapid, conceited,…

— Jessica Valenti

Be as pissed off as you want to be. Don’t hold back because you think it’s unladylike or some such nonsense. We…

— Jessica Valenti

“I’ve always found the idea of 'saving' your virginity intriguing: it’s not as if we’re packing our Saran-wrapped hymens away in the…

— Jessica Valenti

I remember at the time - right before we started Feministing.com - doing a Google search for the term "young feminism" and…

— Jessica Valenti

Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality…

— Jessica Valenti

When I did get married, and specifically after I got married and the New York Times style section featured my wedding in…

— Jessica Valenti

“For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so…

— Jessica Valenti

What bothers me the most about the way that people appropriate feminist language is that they are the same people who are…

— Jessica Valenti

If there's an article about sexual assault, if there's a video about feminism on YouTube, you're going to get the most horrible,…

— Jessica Valenti

“As Feministing.com commenter electron-Blue noted in response to the 2008 New York Times Magazine article “Students of Virginity,” on abstinence clubs at…

— Jessica Valenti

There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of…

— Jessica Valenti

“What’s the difference between venerating women for being fuckable and putting them on a purity pedestal? In both cases, women’s worth is…

— Jessica Valenti

I know I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really…

— Jessica Valenti

I don't think that there's a guy behind the desk at every newspaper saying "No, woman" and sending her on her way,…

— Jessica Valenti

“I’m talking about the soul-crushing drudgery of day-to-day parenthood that we’re too embarrassed to talk about. The boredom, the stress, the nagging…

— Jessica Valenti

“A high school teacher once told me that identity is half what we tell ourselves and half what we tell other people…

— Jessica Valenti

The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager…

— Jessica Valenti

I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world. I think, though, for Western feminism and…

— Jessica Valenti

I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think. You know, it used to be, 10…

— Jessica Valenti

Lately, I'm thinking a lot about, in parenting and in my writing, how to create a language about sexism in a way…

— Jessica Valenti

“As different as we all are, there’s one thing most young women have in common: We’re all brought up to feel like…

— Jessica Valenti

Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if…

— Jessica Valenti

There's going to be biological differences between the genders. There's going to be biological differences between two women or two men. There's…

— Jessica Valenti