Jessica Valenti Quotes

When you ask most American parents why they want to have kids, it's to bring more joy into their lives. So, when you don't feel that all-encompassing joy, it must be that something is wrong with you. I think it's dissatisfaction that the expectation was different than the reality.

Jessica Valenti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 1, 1978

Topics

JoyParentsThinkRealityAmerican

I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff.

Jessie J

LoveI AmStupidDoingDisguiseAm

You get so addicted to winning that you don't want that feeling to stop.

Jerry West

WinningYouFeelingStopWantGet

What's interesting when you see 'Black Panther' is you realize it couldn't have been directed by anybody else but Ryan Coogler. It's a great adventure movie, and it works on all those different levels as entertainment, but it has this kind of cultural through-line that is so specific that it makes it universal.

John Singleton

GreatAdventureBlackInteresting

The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.

Shirley Manson

GoodVoiceLearnEnoughPowerful

McCarthy had ten years in the House of Representatives, only two terms as a senator. What did he pass? Are there any bills or any piece of legislation that he's identified with? Not at all.

Robert Dallek

Ten YearsHouseTwoYearsBillsHe

Interreligious dialogue is extremely important for religious people as well as secular people or non-believers. They should participate, and they should be encouraged to have interreligious dialogue, because dialogue is a channel or an instrument to promote intimacy between individual.

Lobsang Tenzin

PeopleImportantIntimacyIndividual

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

Demi Moore

MarriageTruthGreatTruth IsYou

My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.

Denis Leary

FamilyBusinessMoneyDayCharity

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

Conor McGregor

GoalMMANumber

Sometimes who is going to be taking care of all of my kids on any given day is more complicated than any trade agreement.

Chrystia Freeland

DayCareComplicatedSometimesMore

They're my best friends. We think of Gigi as the brains in the family - something most of the world doesn't know - and my favorite thing about Bella is that she's a free spirit who never lets anyone set limits for her. They can be really protective, but they've taught me not to let other people define what I'm capable of.

Anwar Hadid

FamilyBestPeopleMeWorldThink

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

Wole Soyinka

WritingThinkEnjoyCompanyEven

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