Jessica Valenti Quotes

Women are brought up to believe you are going to be the better parent and you know what's best. I don't think that's necessarily true. As much as we have to ask men to step it up, we have to take a look at ourselves and be willing to give up some of that parental power.

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• How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Mind
  • Compassion
  • Results

• Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Light
  • Control
  • Brain

• People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

  

  Kate Morton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Business

• We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Challenge

• I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • My Own

• England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!

  

  Xavi
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Football

• Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Best

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Literature

• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Past
  • Experiences
  • Pull

• At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Good
  • Movie
  • End

• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Art
  • Worry

• When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Better
  • Hunting
  • Racing

• Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Man
  • Pleasures
  • Depend

• How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Live
  • You
  • Question

• Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Freedom
  • Action
  • Forgiveness

• Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • Country
  • War

• I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• I got a rent-stabilized apartment in 1977, and that has made my life as an actor possible.

  

  Marylouise Burke
  • Life

• Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Humans
  • Data
  • Basics

• Women are brought up to believe you are going to be the better parent and you know what's best. I don't think that's necessarily true. As much as we have to ask men to step it up, we have to take a look at ourselves and be willing to give up some of that parental power.

  

  Jessica Valenti
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