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
It's a profound thing to watch another human being come out of your body. — Ariel Levy Body Copy Share Image
“We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising.” — Ariel Levy Family Copy Share Image
“...if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.” — Ariel Levy Equal rights Copy Share Image
Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise. — Ariel Levy Compromise Copy Share Image
“Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?” — Ariel Levy Feminism 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 Adventure Copy Share Image
I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with… — Ariel Levy Career Copy Share Image
Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like making the puzzle or… — Ariel Levy Ambition Copy Share Image
I think what's dangerous about marriage is the way it can make you feel like you've got it all wrapped up. Like… — Ariel Levy Dangerous 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 Agenda Copy Share Image
“I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids. I was… — Ariel Levy Children Copy Share Image
“We skipped over the part where we just accept and respect that some women like to seem exhibitionistic and lickerish, and decided… — Ariel Levy Porn star Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I love more than traveling to a place where I know nobody and where everything will be a surprise,… — Ariel Levy Love Copy Share Image
“It can be fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man.… — Ariel Levy Feminism Copy Share Image
“It is not a good feeling being right about something you have suspected when you finally gain undeniable confirmation that it's true.… — Ariel Levy Life long 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… — Ariel Levy Computers Copy Share Image
“We have to ask ourselves why we are so focused on silent girly-girls in G-strings faking lust. This is not a sign… — Ariel Levy Learning Copy Share Image
“This may seem confusing considering the "swing to the right" this country has taken, but raunch culture transcends elections. The values people… — Ariel Levy People Vote Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I love more than traveling to a place where I know nobody, and where everything will be a surprise,… — Ariel Levy Love Copy Share Image
“There are some women who are probably genuinely aroused by the idea of being photographed naked. But I think we can safely… — Ariel Levy Playboy Copy Share Image
“When I was young. When I had no idea that all over the city, all over the world, there were people walking… — Ariel Levy Truth Copy Share Image
“we were taking on the care of, together. They slept in the bed with us and followed us around from room to… — Ariel Levy First time Copy Share Image
“But in a strange way, I am comforted by the truth. Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this… — Ariel Levy Comforted 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… — Ariel Levy Feminism Copy Share Image
“Women of my generation were given the lavish gift of our own agency by feminism—a belief that we could decide for ourselves… — Ariel Levy Faith Copy Share Image
There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no… — Ariel Levy Arguing 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… — Ariel Levy Death 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 Black magic 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 Experience Copy Share Image
“We didn’t sit around looking at our phone or looking at our computer or looking at the television. We didn’t sit around… — Ariel Levy Computers 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 Adventure Copy Share Image
“Female Chauvinist Pigs don't bother to question the criteria on which women are judged, they are too busy judging other women themselves” — Ariel Levy Too busy Copy Share Image
“We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol. It was almost a sport. We tore through… — Ariel Levy Sobriety Copy Share Image
“We are still so uneasy with the vicissitudes of sex we need to surround ourselves with caricatures of female hotness to safely… — 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 Back Copy Share Image
I don't hear women who are less privileged thinking they're entitled to everything, whenever they want it. That's a privilege phenomenon, but… — Ariel Levy Everything Copy Share Image
“There were shadows I saw out of the corner of my eye that looked like problems waiting to become real, but you… — Ariel Levy Shadows Copy Share Image
“That trip was like all my life, distilled: a compulsion to thrust myself toward adventure, offset by a longing to crawl into… — Ariel Levy Adventure 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 Anything Copy Share Image
