“if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress” — 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
“Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?” — Ariel Levy Feminism Copy Share Image
Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise. — Ariel Levy Compromise 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
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
“We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising.” — Ariel Levy Family 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
“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
“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
“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
“These are not stories about girls getting what they want sexually, they are stories about girls gaining acclaim socially, for which their… — 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
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 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
“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
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 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 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
“This may seem confusing considering the "swing to the right" this country has taken, but raunch culture transcends elections. The values people… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“I asked if she’d ever wanted children. She told me, “Everybody doesn’t get everything.” It sounded depressing to me at the time,… — Ariel Levy Children 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… — Ariel Levy Business 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 Copy Share Image
It's a profound thing to watch another human being come out of your body. — Ariel Levy Body 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 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
“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 Feminism 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
“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 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
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
“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
“Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as… — Ariel Levy Feminism Copy Share Image
“You have an affair to get for yourself what you wish would come from the person you love the most. And then… — Ariel Levy Affair 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
“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
“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
“But in a strange way, I am comforted by the truth. Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this… — Ariel Levy 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
