I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them. — Ariel Levy Activist Copy Share Image
“A real editor isn't just someone you work with; he's your guide.” — Ariel Levy Editing Copy Share Image
“The whole point is that everybody gets to marry the person they love.” — Ariel Levy Marriage Copy Share Image
“We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol.” — Ariel Levy Alcohol Copy Share Image
“Writing is communicating with an unknown intimate who is always available, the way the faithful turn to God.” — Ariel Levy Turn to god Copy Share Image
“Daring to think that the rules do not apply is the mark of a visionary. It’s also a symptom of narcissism.” — Ariel Levy Narcissism Copy Share Image
“marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over, until the words become madness. DJ” — Ariel Levy Marriage 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
“Until recently, I lived in a world where lost things could always be replaced. But it has been made overwhelmingly clear to… — Ariel Levy Lost things 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?… — Ariel Levy Community Copy Share Image
“For a while, it was as poisonous and wrenching as it had been since the day it happened, as intolerable: a crime… — Ariel Levy Death Copy Share Image
“Sex is one of the most interesting things we as humans have to play with, and we've reduced it to polyester underpants… — Ariel Levy Sexuality 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… — Ariel Levy Stories Girls 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
“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
“The truth is that the new conception of raunch culture as a path to liberation rather than oppression is a convenient (and… — Ariel Levy Feminism 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 Adventure Copy Share Image
People didn't like me; I was loud and aggressive. People can take it from a 42-year-old, but when you're a little kid,… — Ariel Levy Better Copy Share Image
“People sometimes tells me that they're baffled by bisexuality. They are convinced that having sex with women is totally different from having… — Ariel Levy Bisexuality 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
“Our national love of porn and pole dancing is not the byproduct of a free and easy society with an earthy acceptance… — Ariel Levy Dance 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 Best Copy Share Image
“If half this country feels so threatened by two people of the same gender being in love and having sex (and, incidentally,… — Ariel Levy Having sex Copy Share Image
“But I would be happier if my daughter and her friends were crashing through the glass ceiling instead of the sexual ceiling,'… — Ariel Levy Children Copy Share Image
“We decided to get another cat—no, two! A pair of tiny, spotted sisters from an animal shelter on Long Island. We brought… — Ariel Levy Animal shelter Copy Share Image
“In 2004 our forty-second president, George W. Bush, the leader of the free world, proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to… — Ariel Levy Free world Copy Share Image
“Passion isn't the point. The glossy, overheated thumping of sexuality in our culture is less about connection than consumption. Hotness has become… — Ariel Levy Passion 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 Feminism Copy Share Image
“Without a doubt there are some women who feel their most sexual with their vaginas waxed, their labia trimmed, their breasts enlarged,… — Ariel Levy Women Feel 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
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
“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 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
![“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)
