A high school teacher once told me that identity is half what we tell ourselves and half what we tell other people about ourselves. But the missing piece he didn’t mention – the piece that holds so much weight, especially in the minds of young women and girls – is the stories that other people tell us about ourselves. Those narratives become the ones we shape ourselves into. They’re who we are, even if so much of it is a performance. This.
-Jessica Valenti
Select a background
More quotes by Jessica Valenti
Popular Authors
A curated listing of popular authors.