"The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most……" — Jessica Valenti
"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 thing for them."
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55 Quotes by Jessica Valenti
Jessica Valenti has 55 quotes on this site.
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Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the…
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Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do…
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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…
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There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by…
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More Cultural Quotes
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
— Margaret Atwood
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Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
— Michelle Bachelet
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
— J. G. Ballard
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It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.
— Bob Barr
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
— Roseanne Barr
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American…
— Saul Bellow
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have…
— Theodore Bikel
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We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.
— Julie Bishop
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The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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I wouldn't necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed…
— Luke Bryan
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The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result…
— Julie Burchill
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The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character…
— Nicolas Cage
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