Quotes by : Jessica Valenti

Because while my daughter lives in a world that knows what happens to women is wrong, it has also accepted....

I’ve always found the idea of 'saving' your virginity intriguing: it’s not as if we’re packing....

Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play....

As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to....

The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us we need a few people to love us. Because what's better....

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid,....

Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national....

..the hope I have for women: that we can start to see ourselves-and encourage men to see us-as more than....

As bell hooks wrote in a 1998 essay, "Naked Without Shame," about black women's bodies and politics,....