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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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- “Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a s…”Jessica Valenti
- “I've thought often about why - why?! - anyone, especially other women, would try to disrupt feminist work tha…”Jessica Valenti
- “I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.'…”Jessica Valenti
- “For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid,…”Jessica Valenti
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- “Immoral women do not exist", said the organist. "That this only a superstition. On the other hand there exist…”Halldór Laxness
- “We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think,…”Erma Bombeck
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Books by Jessica Valenti
Sex object
2016
Believe Me
2020
The purity myth
2009
Full Frontal Feminism
2014