The studies about differences between the sexes that you see kind of get propped up in the media are more often than not denigrating women in some wa…

- Jessica Valenti

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

- Jessica Valenti

The Internet is the new public space. And because women are out in public, people don't like that in much the same way that if you're walking down th…

- Jessica Valenti

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sex…

- Jessica Valenti

Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman

- Jessica Valenti

I think motherhood has made issues all feel much more urgent than they did before. So it didn't necessarily change how I feel about certain things - …

- Jessica Valenti

Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn’t matter how much we love them. They hate us”

- Jessica Valenti

It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.

- Jessica Valenti

Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as…

- Jessica Valenti