All Jessica Valenti Quotes
- Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is… Absent
- Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don’t… Agents
- Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long… Ability
- The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn… Cultural
- There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was special enough to… Club
- Yes, the more successful you are—or the stronger, the more opinionated—the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people will think you’re… All
- It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're… Ability
- Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means that nothing else… Accomplish
- Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn’t matter how much we love them. They hate us†Doesn
- Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman Children Love
- My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible. Accessible
- You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling. Feminist
- I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one… Completely
- Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism… Battling
- You're not too fat. You're not too loud. You're not too smart. You're not unladylike. There is nothing wrong with you. Fat
- As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or Bosnia.… Almost Four
- Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children. Any
- There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought… Across
- It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used. Become Impossible
- Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the… Beastie