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My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

Jessica Valenti

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Jessica Valenti
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: November 1
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New York City
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Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the laundry' and 'clean up my room' could understand, maybe the rest of the world would follow suit. It made me hopeful in the best way.
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Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.
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People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.
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As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father giving the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to obey the groom. And that only covers the wedding.
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And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.
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I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women. And that's kind of a strategic thing on my part, because I think that it's the hardest definition to argue with. You know, who doesn't want that? Everyone wants equality for women.
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If you go to places like YouTube, it's a cesspool, and a lot of the comments are really horrifying and misogynist and harassing.
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The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.
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There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.
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If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.
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I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.
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You're not too fat. You're not too loud. You're not too smart. You're not unladylike. There is nothing wrong with you.
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I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.
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Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if it works for me, right, it works for the movement.
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I do think that more people are feminists than they realize.
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