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Jessica Valenti quotes: The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.

The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.

Jessica Valenti quotes: Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

Jessica Valenti quotes: You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.

Jessica Valenti quotes: According to pop culture, women are either searching for a man, with a man, or getting over one.

According to pop culture, women are either searching for a man, with a man, or getting over one.

Jessica Valenti quotes: 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

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

Jessica Valenti quotes: Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.

Jessica Valenti quotes: Stress from blogging keeps me up at night.

Stress from blogging keeps me up at night.

Jessica Valenti quotes: By fetishizing youth and virginity, we're supporting a disturbing message: that really sexy women aren't women at all- they're girls.

By fetishizing youth and virginity, we're supporting a disturbing message: that really sexy women aren't women at all- they're girls.

Jessica Valenti quotes: Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

Jessica Valenti quotes: I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.

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

Jessica Valenti quotes: Small blogs are starting up big campaigns.

Small blogs are starting up big campaigns.

Jessica Valenti quotes: It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.

It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.

Jessica Valenti quotes: I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

Jessica Valenti quotes: So remember, this is definitely a screwed-if-you-do, screwed-if-you-don't situation. You just remember to say, Screw them.

So remember, this is definitely a screwed-if-you-do, screwed-if-you-don't situation. You just remember to say, Screw them.

Jessica Valenti quotes: I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.

I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.

Jessica Valenti quotes: Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn't matter how much we love them. They hate us

Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn't matter how much we love them. They hate us

Jessica Valenti quotes: Women politicians have definitely been known to fuck over other women. Democratic Louisiana

Women politicians have definitely been known to fuck over other women. Democratic Louisiana

Jessica Valenti quotes: but there is a difference between loving someone and having the ability to feel that love.

but there is a difference between loving someone and having the ability to feel that love.

Jessica Valenti quotes: How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

Jessica Valenti quotes: I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.

I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.

Jessica Valenti quotes: [Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

Jessica Valenti quotes: As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

Jessica Valenti quotes: Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

Jessica Valenti quotes: I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.

I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.

Jessica Valenti quotes: If your husband is cheating on you, it doesn't mean that you need to get prettier it means he's a scumbag.

If your husband is cheating on you, it doesn't mean that you need to get prettier
it means he's a scumbag.

Jessica Valenti quotes: I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.

I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world.

Jessica Valenti quotes: People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.

People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.

Jessica Valenti quotes: According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

Jessica Valenti quotes: I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

Jessica Valenti quotes: The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

Jessica Valenti quotes: When you look hard enough and long enough at your own face, everything about it starts to seem hideous.

When you look hard enough and long enough at your own face, everything about it starts to seem hideous.

Jessica Valenti quotes: Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.

Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.

Jessica Valenti quotes: I do think that more people are feminists than they realize.

I do think that more people are feminists than they realize.

Jessica Valenti quotes: As much as I disagree with Sarah Palin, there's no denying that she was the victim of sexism.

As much as I disagree with Sarah Palin, there's no denying that she was the victim of sexism.

Jessica Valenti quotes: I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.

I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.

Jessica Valenti quotes: I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

Jessica Valenti quotes: There's nothing revolutionary about reinforcing the virgin/whore dichotomy.

There's nothing revolutionary about reinforcing the virgin/whore dichotomy.

Jessica Valenti quotes: Ignoring men, whether romantically or rhetorically, is existential violence to them.

Ignoring men, whether romantically or rhetorically, is existential violence to them.

Jessica Valenti quotes: If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

Jessica Valenti quotes: It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.

It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.

Jessica Valenti quotes: After all, a right that can't be exercised is not very useful to anyone.

After all, a right that can't be exercised is not very useful to anyone.

Jessica Valenti quotes: If you go to places like YouTube, it's a cesspool, and a lot of the comments are really horrifying and misogynist and harassing.

If you go to places like YouTube, it's a cesspool, and a lot of the comments are really horrifying and misogynist and harassing.

Jessica Valenti quotes: All women live in objectification the way fish live in water. - Catharine A. MacKinnon WHEN

All women live in objectification the way fish live in water. - Catharine A. MacKinnon WHEN