“That trip was like all my life, distilled: a compulsion to thrust myself toward adventure, offset by a longing to crawl into… — Ariel Levy 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 Copy Share Image
“I wanted what she [her mother] had wanted, what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
I was not big on playing house. I preferred make-believe that revolved around adventure, featuring pirates and knights. I was also domineering,… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising.” — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
![“I wanted what she [her mother] had wanted, what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safely and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness…” quote by Ariel Levy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f20/ariel-levy-7405_adventure_i-wanted-what-she-her-mother-had-wanted_1815090.jpg)
