Jessica Valenti Quotes

I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

I'd say I am partial to women.

I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.'

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

I'm not a type of feminist who is afraid to be sexy.

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much.

I think the idea that women can stand up and be strong and still be seen as beautiful and sexual is kind of cool, and I would like to see more of that.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

I am a woman, therefore I am a problem solver.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for changes still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves

Women must try to do things as men have tried.

The emancipation of women will only be possible if the traditional world of men also changes.

It's a misogynistic world. It's because of what we ask of actresses. We ask them to be sensitive, fragile, desirable. And men? We ask them to be strong and virile.

I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.

Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.

I'm all for making a woman-empowering song. I get that, and I think that's dope. I've got a daughter, and I think that's amazing. But when you're specifically picking on guys, that's when it's not right. 'No Scrubs' is the meanest, dumbest song ever made because they need to be specific in certain areas.