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Sex Object

New York Times Bestseller“Sharp and prescient… The appeal of Valenti’s memoir lies in her ability to trace objectification through her own life, and to trace what was for a long time her own obliviousness to it…

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“No one wants to listen to our sad stories unless they are smoothed over with a joke or nice melody. And even then, not always. No one wants to hear a woman talking or writing about pain in a way that suggests that it doesn't end.”

— Jessica Valenti, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, feminism, LOL, Laughing it Off, Sad Stories

“Ignoring men, whether romantically or rhetorically, is existential violence to them”

— Jessica Valenti, amazon.com

Tagged: feminism, Men, Violence, Ignoring Men

“I am tied of faking confidence or being told that my lack thereof is a fault when it seems to me the most natural reaction I could possibly have to the lifelong feedback women are given. I don't want to be confident or inspirational and I don't want to buck up anymore because the faking takes more e…”

— Jessica Valenti, amazon.com

Tagged: Confidence, Faking it, Quote of the Moment

“My father took me aside one day soon after and told me this: The things you do in your twenties are just things you do. But as you approach thirty what you do starts to become who you are. And there are some things you do not want to be forever.”

— Jessica Valenti, amazon.com

Tagged: Who You Are, Personality, Quote of the Moment, 20s, Twenties

“Edgar Allen Poe once called the death of a beautiful woman 'the most poetical topic in the world' and I've often found myself wondering how many woman writers who have killed themselves or let themselves be otherwise obliterated were trying, somehow, to fulfill this most popular of narratives.”

— Jessica Valenti, amazon.com

Tagged: Writers, Being a girl, feminism, woman writers, Edgar Allan Poe