Jessica Valenti Quotes

I think talking is as casual as blogging, and sometimes writing can be as casual as talking. My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

Jessica Valenti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StyleWritingThinkPoliticalChoice

Local businesses have never had a great way to get customers in the door.

Andrew Mason

GreatDoorWayNeverGetCustomers

I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.

Anderson Cooper

GoodPeopleBelieveSomeoneProblem

Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

Robert Orben

LoveGirlGreatLove IsYouLights

I will use my expertise in technology to bring the IRS up to date.

Steve Mnuchin

TechnologyWillUpBringExpertise

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.

Roger Wicker

AmericanReasonInterestHumanitarian

Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.

Robin Marantz Henig

RegretEmotionBitterDecision-Making

You have to have integrity.

Michelle Yeoh

IntegrityYou

Everyone has a different impression of what they are eating; not everyone tastes the same things, and definitely, not everyone has the same food memories.

Johnny Iuzzini

MemoriesFoodEatingSameEveryone

Clowns are meant to make people smile. That's my goal.

Colleen Ballinger

SmilePeopleGoalMakeClownsMeant

I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don't pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, 'Oh, if God spares me next year...' or 'Please God...' but they're only phrases.

Cilla Black

GodParentsMeNightYearSay

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for.

Alice Oswald

TimeDecisionSkyBluePoetryWorld

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

Pete Fountain

JealousySayNeverBandLeadTie

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