"Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement."

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Source : Jessica Valenti (2014). “Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters”, p.106, Seal Press

Jessica Valenti

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“I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.”
“In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.”

Source : "Carriers in Combat: The Air War at Sea" by Chester G. Hearn, (p. 43), 2007.
“The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”

Source : Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.580, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.”

Source : "Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer". Book by Emanuel Levy, April 14, 2009.
“We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.”
“Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.”
“There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.”
“Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.”

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