Jessica Valenti Quotes - Page 4

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• As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or Bosnia. Amnesty International reports that women in [the United States] have a higher risk of dying due to pregnancy complications than women in forty-nine other countries (black women are almost four times as likely to die as white women). The United States spends more than any other country on maternal health care, yet our risk of dying or coming close to death during pregnancy or in childbirth remains unreasonably high.

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  Country, Pregnancy, White

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• I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can't wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it.

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  Summer, Teacher, Jobs

  "'Why Have Kids?' author on parenting's contradictions". Interview with Sharon Jayson, www.usatoday.com. September 3, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Mother, Children, Fun

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• You know, people ask me a lot, well, can you be pro-life and be feminist? Can you be conservative and be feminist? And I think that yeah, maybe personally you can be those things. But I think if you're advocating for legislation, or if you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

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  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.

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  Mother, Teenager, Loss

  "My Big Feminist Wedding". www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.

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  Fever, Disease

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• At the end of the day, though, the entire basis for consent laws doesn't make sense. We're not old enough to decide if we don't want a baby, but we are old enough to have one?

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  Baby, Law, The End Of The Day

  Jessica Valenti (2014). “Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters”, p.50, Seal Press

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• I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women. And that's kind of a strategic thing on my part, because I think that it's the hardest definition to argue with. You know, who doesn't want that? Everyone wants equality for women.

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  Thinking, Political, Feminism

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Young women know that something is off; they know that the world is a messed-up place. They know that the world is a sexist place because they've had experiences in their own life; they see things happening to their friends, to their parents. But because feminism isn't widely accepted, because they don't necessarily have access to feminist thought or to feminist groups, they don't necessarily have a language to put behind the feelings and the thoughts that they're having. And they certainly don't have a support system to let them know like, hey, that's okay; you're right, that is screwed up.

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  Support, Feminist, Parent

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if it works for me, right, it works for the movement. But I do think that personally they're missing out. If you don't identify as a feminist, you're missing out on this whole community that's out there that could really help you with your work, help you with your personal life, and just give you support.

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  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I do think that more people are feminists than they realize.

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  Thinking, People, Feminist

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I hear from a lot of young women, you know, I don't want to call myself a feminist because I don't want to get in an argument with someone. And it's just not cool; like it's not a cool thing to be associated with.

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  Feminist, Want, Argument

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

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  Feminist, Stereotype, Reason

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

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  Thinking, People, Feminism

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

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  College, Class, Feminist

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think the idea that feminism is dead is dangerous because it leads women and men to believe that (1) they don't have to do anything; the work has been done, and that everything is okay now; and (2) it leaves them kind of alone, I think, in a struggle, and that's something I've seen a lot when I go to colleges and I speak to young women.

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  Believe, Struggle, College

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

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  Political, Feminism, Definitions

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

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  Fighting, Rights, Feminist

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm really aware of how feminism and feminist rhetoric has been appropriated by the right.

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  Feminist, Feminism, Rhetoric

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There's no benefit to saying that you're a feminist. But you do kind of get a nice patriarchal pat on the head if you say, oh, I'm not like that, like I'm not one of those crazy feminists, which is something that happens a lot, where young women or young men will express some sort of feminist ideal, will say, you know, I think it's crap that Wal-Mart won't give out emergency contraception, but I'm not one of those crazy feminists.

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  Crazy, Nice, Men

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't find the wave model very productive, because I think it kind of serves to fan the flames of generational tension, or make it seem like there's more generational tension than there actually is.

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  Thinking, Flames, Fans

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think that blogging and the Internet has completely changed feminism for ever, I think.

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  Thinking, Feminism, Blogging

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It used to be, if you wanted to have a strong, influential voice in the feminist movement, you really needed to be part of this New York/D.C. elite group of feminists, or part of a mainstream feminist organization. And now it's kind of an amazing thing that you can just start a blog and put your voice out there and build your readership.

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  Strong, New York, Organization

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.

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  Feminist, Feminism, Genius

  Source: bigthink.com

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