“Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as something outside the normal bounds of womanhood.” — 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
