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Jennifer Wright Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“In the same way women competed (and, alas, sometimes still compete) to see who could eat less and be thinner, until consuming any solid food at all was seen as indulgent, now we have to compete to see who can spend almost nothing.”
— Jennifer Wright, Don't Shame Women for Spending Money
Tagged: Women and Money, Minimalism
“A future where women are not seen as liars, or objects that exist solely for male pleasure — that future will happen.”
— Jennifer Wright
Tagged: Women, Women Empowerment, empowering women, feminism, Empowering
“Everyone comes into your life for a reason.

Sometimes the reason is to teach you that you have appallingly bad taste on who you let into your life.”
— Jennifer Wright
Tagged: People, Preference, Friends, choosing your friends, Toxic People, Life
“Your guns are not 'protecting your families.' They’re killing your children.”
— Jennifer Wright
Tagged: Gun Control, gun ban
“It’s not hard to see what a pro-life world looks like. It looks like a world with a lot of dead women in it.”
— Jennifer Wright, Why A Pro-Life World Has A Lot of Dead Women In It
Tagged: Pro-Life, Abortion
“Cape/groundsheets were used in the Australian army up until the 1970s. As opposed to wigs, which serve no function whatsoever, cloaks are all purpose garments.”
— Jennifer Wright, Serious Question, When and Why Did Men Stop Wearing Capes?
Tagged: Fashion, Capes, Male Fashion
“Denying people their citizenship is a clear way to indicate that they should no longer expect to receive the rights of citizens.”
— Jennifer Wright, Stripping US Citizens Of Their Passports Is A Precursor to Genocide — And You Should Be Terrified Right Now
Tagged: Government, Trump, Citizenship
“Facts, conservatives are fond of saying, do not care about your feelings. That is, unless they are conservative feelings, which we are expected to treat with unerring delicacy, even when they are scientifically unfounded.”
— Jennifer Wright, Abortion Is Not Murder
Tagged: Abortion, Politics, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice
“Here are some things women can spend money on without being called out: items for their children or husband, or items that they will literally die without.

Here are some things women will be shamed for spending money on: pretty much anything that is for their personal pleasure.”
— Jennifer Wright, Don't Shame Women for Spending Money
Tagged: Women and Money, wealth disparity
“One day, after all, you will be dead. Then you be in the ground. You buy no more flowers or pretty dresses, you will take no more vacations, or spend money on anything else. So if there is something will brighten your day, do it now. Defy death. Revel in this brief moment, here, in this world full of intermittent beauty.”
— Jennifer Wright, Don't Shame Women for Spending Money
Tagged: Money, Women and Money, Spending and Life
“It is so much easier to believe that everything is a conspiracy theory because it implies some sort of order to the world.

The fact is, the world is chaos. Sometimes kids get shot. No secret intelligentsia is behind it. We just all have got to do better.”
— Jennifer Wright
Tagged: World, chaotic world, Chaos, tumult, Mass Shootings, crimes, Society, Conspiracy Theories
“Ultimately, the ruling isn’t just about people working in California, or even just about freelancers. It is something every American should fear — state governments telling adults how to conduct their business and, in that regard, how to manage their lives.”
— Jennifer Wright, Why California’s AB-5 is a threat to the American way of life
Tagged: AB-5, State Lifestyles
“As easy as it is to say that people should stop once they have enough success, who can say what’s enough in terms of friendships? Career connections? Fame? Every tweet you type could beget something great, or something disastrous.”
— Jennifer Wright, This is why it’s so hard for us to quit Twitter
Tagged: Twitter, Social Media, Connection
“You can think Melania Trump is a bad person and also feel bad about a society that made it seem like a good idea for her to marry a clearly uncaring monster like Donald Trump.

This may have been a me thing, but growing up I got a LOT of messages that I w ,as supposed to marry a successful man. Not a kind man, not a man who shared my dreams, above all, a successful man. That's not a message that seems to make for really happy marriages.”
— Jennifer Wright
Tagged: marriages, Society, Marriage, societal standards, Standards
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