This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminist. It's the… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
I think all the time about the ways in which I'm the beneficiary of the women's movement's success. — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“Women of my generation were given the lavish gift of our own agency by feminism—a belief that we could decide for ourselves… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
I don't hear women who are less privileged thinking they're entitled to everything, whenever they want it. That's a privilege phenomenon, but… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“...if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.” — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“Female Chauvinist Pigs don't bother to question the criteria on which women are judged, they are too busy judging other women themselves” — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?” — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress” — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be like a… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
I think it would be difficult to argue that I'm a net-negative for womankind. I've tried pretty hard to bring in unusual… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“It can be fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man.… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“The truth is that the new conception of raunch culture as a path to liberation rather than oppression is a convenient (and… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“Women's liberation and empowerment are terms feminists started using to talk about casting off the limitations imposed upon women and demanding equality.… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminist. It's the thinking of… — Ariel Levy Copy Share
No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my… — Ariel Levy Copy Share
“chest—I could hear him denigrating Obama at the top of his lungs, which seemed to make Mary only slightly less uncomfortable than it made… — Ariel Levy Copy Share
“Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out alive. Accepting… — Ariel Levy Copy Share
“Writing was the solution to every problem—financial, emotional, intellectual. It had kept me company when I was a lonely child. It gave me an… — Ariel Levy Copy Share
“These are not stories about girls getting what they want sexually, they are stories about girls gaining acclaim socially, for which their sexuality is… — Ariel Levy Copy Share
“We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising.” — Ariel Levy Copy Share
A wedding, a great wedding, is just a blast. A celebration of romance and community and love... What is unfun about that? Nothing. — Ariel Levy Copy Share
“Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as something outside… — Ariel Levy Copy Share
For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life. — Ariel Levy Copy Share
“We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol. It was almost a sport. We tore through sobriety together,… — Ariel Levy Copy Share
I haven't really rebelled. I just think my parents were right. I never disagreed with anything that I was brought up with, in terms… — Ariel Levy Copy Share
“Sex is one of the most interesting things we as humans have to play with, and we've reduced it to polyester underpants and implants.… — Ariel Levy Copy Share
