Jessica Valenti Quotes
I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn't want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts of hooks.
Jessica Valenti
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I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
Kate Winslet
I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
Edie Falco
By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
Mandy Moore
When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.
Sam Heughan
I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.
Nate Diaz
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.
Rick Nielsen
Cheap Trick
I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Your life only gets better when you get better.
Brian Tracy
I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.
Irina Shayk
My mother, when I told her I was going into the jewelry business said, 'Kenneth, don't tell anyone.'
Kenneth Jay Lane
I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn't want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts of hooks.
Jessica Valenti