Jessica Valenti Quotes

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

I like women. I like them so much, I think every man should own two.

It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.

The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

What I'm not about is exploiting women.

I'm a feminist. God, yes! A bra-burning, building-burning feminist.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is 'political fiction.'

I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news. Women's bodies are women's bodies, and that's that. And I love to see beautiful - the female form in great art and great photography.

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Prim and proper white women, I like what I see.

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

A bunch of liberals wanted to outlaw men gazing at women because the gaze was said to objectify women. Sorry, liberals, it can't be helped among the heterosexual crowd.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

I consider myself a feminist because I believe women should have equal rights. Of course. It's just that the term 'feminism' conjures up other things for people.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.... What do these feminists want? What do you want? You say equality .... . You're equal in the eyes of the law but not, excuse my saying so, in ability

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.