Jessica Valenti Quotes

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

I don't fear being judged as a misogynist.

Misogyny is not something that you want to be a part of.

Women should not fall back on 'sexism' unless they really feel that it's happening.

Nobody that I know would ever say that I'm sexist.

When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny

I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be labeled a feminist. I consider myself a person who has throughout my entire life stood up for myself. It's never been my ambition to be someone who takes a backseat to anything. I'm not a male basher at all. I divide people into assholes and non-assholes, and that's genderless. I encounter sexism everyday.

One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Have you ever seen a man darning socks? So therefore a woman cannot be a combat pilot.

If you are chauvinistic mind, you will not be able to take the fact there is a strong, successful girl.

Sexism is real.

I think it is childish for men to joke about women's clothes, to make fun of our hats, to complain over the cost of a good fur coat.

To me, it's disheartening when you have someone take away everything you've done as a woman because of a man.

I have met fantastic men in my life and horrible women. I have also met some amazing women and terrible men. I have seen women who are sexists.