Jessica Valenti Quotes

In 'The Purity Myth,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline a new way for us to think about young women as moral actors, one that doesn't include their bodies.

Jessica Valenti

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• Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Funny
  • Matter
  • Old

• My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Change

• My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Life
  • Dream
  • My Life

• There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • People
  • Know
  • Hand

• My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Hair
  • Assets
  • Accent

• Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Research

• 'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Film

• I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Eyes
  • Makeup
  • Lipstick

• Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Rich

• I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Promise
  • Opportunities
  • Research

• I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Eye
  • Look

• I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Women
  • Young
  • Genre

• Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

  

  Laura Lang
  • People
  • Long
  • Business

• I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Power
  • Think
  • Down

• Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • School
  • High

• That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Know
  • English

• The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Life
  • Rest

• There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

  

  Jesse Ventura

• Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

  

  Jon Postel
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Football

• Be current. Know and comment on current trends and news. Don't be the last one entering a conversation.

  

  Coco Rocha

• The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Up
  • Women
  • Society

• In 'The Purity Myth,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline a new way for us to think about young women as moral actors, one that doesn't include their bodies.

  

  Jessica Valenti
  • Women
  • Moral