Jessica Valenti Quotes - Page 6

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• I think I was in high school, actually, and it was a guidance counselor or someone said, you know, you're just too loud; like you need to just stop talking so much and stop being so opinionated; like no one wants to listen to you because you're really annoying. And I'm glad that I didn't shut up, because it seems like people are listening.

  Jessica Valenti

  School, Thinking, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

  Jessica Valenti

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've been thinking a lot about Lady Gaga and what she means for feminism. I think - I find her completely fascinating, and I really like what she has to say.

  Jessica Valenti

  Mean, Thinking, Feminism

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Jessica Valenti

  Careers, Advice, Career Advice

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think that we're our own worst enemies in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to doing work where you're criticized a lot or doing work where there's a lot of hater directed at you; and to not constantly second-guess yourself.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, Worst Enemy, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think my biggest career mistake has been taking on too much. And I think this is kind of - I think it's related to the Internet world, where you're always multitasking and you have a million windows open and you feel like you can do a lot at the same time.

  Jessica Valenti

  Mistake, Thinking, Careers

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think it's important to let kids be kids and be cautious about accelerated sexuality as pressure to mature too quickly. My hackles go up when I see a teacher making kids feel like they are older, special, mature. Let kids be kids.

  Jessica Valenti

  Teacher, Kids, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I ask myself a lot how other women can be against the ideology that has to do with women empowering other women. Going along with the access of power and the status quo and forging a special position and the thought process that goes: I am not like those women. When it comes to things like assault, for example, perhaps it makes them feel safer. It's the denial: I'm okay. This won't happen to me. Acknowledging that the world is a profoundly unsafe for women is a scary thought.

  Jessica Valenti

  Empowering, Scary, Special

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Lately, I'm thinking a lot about, in parenting and in my writing, how to create a language about sexism in a way that is attractive and approachable to this age group. I can teach my daughter about not talking to strangers but I can't teach her about how to succeed in a sexist world or even how to exist as a body in a sexist world. I want to begin by asking girls what they want and why they want it? Interrogating that. If this is the sex life you want, what makes you think you want that? I imagine the only way to authentically get at sexuality is by asking those questions.

  Jessica Valenti

  Girl, Daughter, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Stress from blogging keeps me up at night.

  Jessica Valenti

  Stress, Night, Blogging

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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

  Giving Up, People, Trying

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You have to have your personal life, and at the end of the day I think what people forget, especially when you're online, is that you're a person too, right, and that you're not this ideal of feminism, that everything you do like feminism just like falls in your wake.

  Jessica Valenti

  Fall, Thinking, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I did get married, and specifically after I got married and the New York Times style section featured my wedding in the vows column, which is really traditionally kind of seen as an elitist column, and it is, but I was happy to be in it. I thought it was good that they were covering a feminist wedding.

  Jessica Valenti

  New York, Feminist, Style

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We've been growing our readership every month, and we're kind of like, where are they all coming from? This is wonderful! And I think one of the best surprises was that you hear so often that young women don't care about feminism, that young women don't identify as feminists. But really, the majority of our readers are young women. So to see so many young people kind of get involved and really take to Feministing.com was a really exciting thing.

  Jessica Valenti

  Thinking, People, Feminist

  Source: bigthink.com

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