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Activist Quote by Ariel Levy

“I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.” quote by Ariel Levy — Download Open image

“I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.”

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“We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising.”

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“Life is uncooperative, impartial, incontestable.”

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A wedding, a great wedding, is just a blast. A celebration of romance and community and love... What is unfun about that? Nothing.

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“Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as something outside…

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For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.

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