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Jessica Valenti has 56 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out…
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Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being…
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Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool,…
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The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without…
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There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was…
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Yes, the more successful you are—or the stronger, the more opinionated—the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people…
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It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether…
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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…
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Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn’t matter how much we love them. They hate us”
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Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a…
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My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.
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You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.
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