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About Jessica Valenti
American feminist writer
Jessica Valenti is an American feminist writer. She co-founded the blog Feministing and wrote for it from 2004 to 2011. She has 91 quotes on the site. Valenti is the author of six books, including Full Frontal Feminism, The Purity Myth, Why Have Kids?, and Sex Object: A Memoir. She has also co-edited Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power, A World Without Rape, and Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World. From 2014 to 2018, she was a columnist for The Guardian, and she now runs the Abortion, Every Day newsletter. Michelle Goldberg described her as “one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation.”
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- “When you ask most American parents why they want to have kids, it's to bring more joy into their lives. So, w…”Jessica Valenti
- “I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an organic p…”Jessica Valenti
- “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…”Jessica Valenti
- “Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women's morality means that nothing else matters- not what we accomplis…”Jessica Valenti
More Ethics quotes
- “We'd do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn't defend us; we defend the law. And when i…”Edward Snowden
- “Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.”John Knoll
- “The criminal (as slave) often seeks a person of great perfection (and here, as a judge of people's imperfecti…”Otto Weininger
Morality: more sayings
- “The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general…”Annie Besant
- “A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all it…”Allen Tate
- “We'd do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn't defend us; we defend the law. And when i…”Edward Snowden
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Books by Jessica Valenti
Sex object
2016
Believe Me
2020
The purity myth
2009
Full Frontal Feminism
2014