Jessica Valenti Quotes

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

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

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

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.

I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist.

I don't see why women have to get naked to sell an album. It's crazy.

For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

I want men to stop calling me a queen and treating me like an imbecile.

I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.

There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting.

I resent it when they write the part of a woman who's just a sexy femme fatale who seduces people to ger her way, perpetrating the myth that that's how woman have to operate, instead of using their brains or their wit.

Patriarchy has stolen our cosmos and returned it in the form of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine and cosmetics.

If actors can show their abs, why can't women show their bikini bods?

I'm so aware how often women's bodies are objectified on film.

I am a girl, not a piece of meat.

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.

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

I've done shows before where it's supposed to be about the women, and then it quickly turns out it isn't.

As women, we need to stand together. We are judged and objectified often enough by men.