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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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- “If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it do…”Jessica Valenti
- “Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting wo…”Jessica Valenti
- “I spoke on a panel once with a famous new age author/guru in leather pants and she said that the problem with…”Jessica Valenti
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- “I was a tomboy through and through; I hated dresses and was personally miffed that I couldn't join the Little…”Sandra Faber
- “If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.”Colin Greenwood
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Books by Jessica Valenti
Sex object
2016
Believe Me
2020
The purity myth
2009
Full Frontal Feminism
2014