Jessica Valenti Quotes About Giving

• I think that almost all traditional institutions are sexist, and they're probably racist and homophobic, and they're all of these things. But a lot of them, like marriage, are too embedded into the culture to give up.

  Jessica Valenti

  Giving Up, Thinking, Culture

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.

  Jessica Valenti

  Giving Up, People, Trying

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

  Jessica Valenti

  Giving Up, Perfect, Feminist

• Tanto si la gente se identifica como feminista como si no, si están haciendo un trabajo que promueve una causa feminista, creo que es maravilloso, como si funciona para mí, claro, funciona para el movimiento. Pero creo que personalmente se lo están perdiendo. Si no te identificas como feminista, te estás perdiendo toda una comunidad que podría ayudarte en tu trabajo, en tu vida personal y darte apoyo.

  Jessica Valenti

  Pensar, Gente, Dar

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• Como indica el aumento de la mortalidad materna en 2010, ahora mismo es más peligroso dar a luz en California que en Kuwait o Bosnia. Amnistía Internacional informa de que las mujeres [de Estados Unidos] tienen más riesgo de morir por complicaciones del embarazo que las mujeres de otros cuarenta y nueve países (las mujeres negras tienen casi cuatro veces más probabilidades de morir que las blancas). Estados Unidos gasta más que ningún otro país en atención a la salud materna y, sin embargo, nuestro riesgo de morir o estar a punto de morir durante el embarazo o el parto sigue siendo excesivamente alto.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Pregnancy, White

• The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some sort of acknowledgement that not everyone should parent - when parenting is a given, it's not fully considered or thought out, and it gives way too easily to parental ambivalence and unhappiness.

  Jessica Valenti

  Motherhood, Giving, Parent

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father "giving" the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to "obey" the groom. And that only covers the wedding.

  Jessica Valenti

  Husband, Father, Names

  "My big feminist wedding" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2009.

• There's no benefit to saying that you're a feminist. But you do kind of get a nice patriarchal pat on the head if you say, oh, I'm not like that, like I'm not one of those crazy feminists, which is something that happens a lot, where young women or young men will express some sort of feminist ideal, will say, you know, I think it's crap that Wal-Mart won't give out emergency contraception, but I'm not one of those crazy feminists.

  Jessica Valenti

  Crazy, Nice, Men

  Fuente: bigthink.com

• If you don't identify as a feminist, you're missing out on this whole community that's out there that could really help you with your work, help you with your personal life, and just give you support.

  Jessica Valenti

  Giving, Support, Feminist

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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