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Jessica Valenti Quotes

My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.

Jessica Valenti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Marriage Mother Together Loss

I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

I Am Board Member Should Mention Am

Basically, I live to do gigs.

Live Gigs Basically

My mother's brother, my uncle, was an actor, quite well known in the West End. He used to come over to our house, and he and I would put on performances for my family. From that, this love of performing and acting grew.

Family Love Mother Brother End Over

In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'

Age Ideas Political Class Become

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

Success People Mind Hands Ladder

I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that screen.

People Short Doing Seeing Something

I have the career that I want.

I like to be bold and different and to go and try things.

Bold Go Try Things Different Like

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

Writing You Serious Break Laws Once

Fashion hasn't changed enough yet. There's too much a stereotype of beauty.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Beauty Fashion Enough Too Much Much

New York offers people the anonymity to be themselves without judgment.

New York People New Judgment Without

A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.

Clayton M. Christensen

Business Innovation Service Simple

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