Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like making the puzzle or whatever, then my ambition changed, and I thought, ‘Now I want to be a good writer.’ And that became my ambition. Ariel Levy Read Quote
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, and people are like, ‘You’re loud and awful,’ you think, ‘I guess I am awful,’ so writing and figuring out how to put things into words was the way I felt better. Ariel Levy Read Quote
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 a toddler. Ariel Levy Read Quote
I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses. Ariel Levy Read Quote
I started keeping a diary in third grade and, in solidarity with Anne Frank, gave it a name and made it my confidante. To this day, I feel comforted and relieved of loneliness, no matter how foreign my surroundings, if I have a pad and a pen with which to record my experiences. Ariel Levy Read Quote
I think all the time about the ways in which I’m the beneficiary of the women’s movement’s success. Ariel Levy Read Quote
No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own. Ariel Levy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think what’s dangerous about marriage is the way it can make you feel like you’ve got it all wrapped up. Like you’re done: you’ve found your spouse, you’ve married him or her, and you don’t need to think too much more about it. Ariel Levy Read Quote
