I think all the time about the ways in which I'm the beneficiary of the women's movement's success. — Ariel Levy Beneficiary Copy Share Image
It's a profound thing to watch another human being come out of your body. — Ariel Levy Body Copy Share Image
“Proving that you are hot, worthy of lust, and—necessarily—that you seek to provoke lust is still exclusively women’s work.” — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
I feel like I turn into my grandma when I'm pecking away at Twitter. And I don't care. — Ariel Levy Care Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of being the kind of woman who'd go to the Gobi desert pregnant. — Ariel Levy Being Copy Share Image
No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that… — Ariel Levy Children Copy Share Image
The 10 or 20 minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic; there is no adventure I would have traded them for. — Ariel Levy Adventure 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 Feminism Copy Share Image
Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like making the puzzle or… — Ariel Levy Ambition 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 Equal rights 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 Feminism 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 Female sexuality Copy Share Image
“John Updike wrote that marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over, until the words… — Ariel Levy Marriage Copy Share Image
“Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out… — Ariel Levy Death 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 Faith Copy Share Image
There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“She told me, "Everybody doesn't get everything." It sounded depressing to me at the time, a statement of defeat. Now admitting it… — Ariel Levy Death Copy Share Image
I started keeping a diary in third grade and, in solidarity with Anne Frank, gave it a name and made it my… — Ariel Levy Day Copy Share Image
“We have to ask ourselves why we are so focused on silent girly-girls in G-strings faking lust. This is not a sign… — Ariel Levy Learning Copy Share Image
“chest—I could hear him denigrating Obama at the top of his lungs, which seemed to make Mary only slightly less uncomfortable than… — Ariel Levy Computers Copy Share Image
“It is not a good feeling being right about something you have suspected when you finally gain undeniable confirmation that it's true.… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“I asked if she’d ever wanted children. She told me, “Everybody doesn’t get everything.” It sounded depressing to me at the time,… — Ariel Levy Children Copy Share Image
“Writing was the solution to every problem—financial, emotional, intellectual. It had kept me company when I was a lonely child. It gave… — Ariel Levy Business Copy Share Image
“we were taking on the care of, together. They slept in the bed with us and followed us around from room to… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise. — Ariel Levy Compromise Copy Share Image
“Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?” — Ariel Levy Feminism 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 Equal rights 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… — Ariel Levy Feminism Copy Share Image
“But in a strange way, I am comforted by the truth. Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this… — 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 Feminism Copy Share Image
“We skipped over the part where we just accept and respect that some women like to seem exhibitionistic and lickerish, and decided… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I love more than traveling to a place where I know nobody and where everything will be a surprise,… — Ariel Levy Love Copy Share Image
“I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids. I was… — Ariel Levy Children 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 Feminism Copy Share Image
“You have an affair to get for yourself what you wish would come from the person you love the most. And then… — Ariel Levy Affair Copy Share Image
I haven't really rebelled. I just think my parents were right. I never disagreed with anything that I was brought up with,… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“That trip was like all my life, distilled: a compulsion to thrust myself toward adventure, offset by a longing to crawl into… — Ariel Levy Adventure Copy Share Image
“There were shadows I saw out of the corner of my eye that looked like problems waiting to become real, but you… — Ariel Levy Shadows Copy Share Image
I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me… — 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
