Jessica Valenti Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• 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

  Hurt, Children, Women

• Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Selfish, Thoughtful

• 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

  Children, Majority, Care

  "My big feminist wedding" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2009.

• Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Rearing A Child, Child Rearing

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• claims about what's 'natural' have long been used to reinforce traditional gender roles and values. ... Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Mother, Children, Fun

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