Jessica Valenti Quotes

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

Jessica Valenti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Always my collections are made of different influences.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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My best weapon is probably my speed. I am faster than most middleweights, and I know how to use it.

Michael Bisping

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The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.

John Singer Sargent

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I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

Steve Buscemi

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I'm a pansy when compared to the men and women of the United States military.

Steven Crowder

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In early 1798, the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon organized and carried out the invasion of Egypt, which became the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East.

Tom Reiss

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You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.

Ruby Rose

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I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambridge, then I could join Footlights. My problem was that I went to a comprehensive in Brighton. I thought I'd have to start from a good school, and the best I could think of was Roedean.

Lucy Griffiths

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I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

Louise Fletcher

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The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.

Delia Smith

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I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

Bradley Whitford

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You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Arlo Guthrie

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