Jessica Valenti Quotes
Top 43 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jessica Valenti
Jessica Valenti Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.
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
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.
By fetishizing youth and virginity, we're supporting a disturbing message: that really sexy women aren't women at all- they're girls.
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.
It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.
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.
So remember, this is definitely a screwed-if-you-do, screwed-if-you-don't situation. You just remember to say, Screw them.
How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?
I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.
[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.
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.
Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?
If your husband is cheating on you, it doesn't mean that you need to get prettier
it means he's a scumbag.
it means he's a scumbag.
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.
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.
When you look hard enough and long enough at your own face, everything about it starts to seem hideous.
If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.