“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 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 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
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 a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody’s mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“To become a mother, I feared, was to relinquish your status as the protagonist of your own life. Your questions were answered,… — 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
