There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn’t work that way. Ariel Levy Read Quote
I’m a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them. Ariel Levy Read Quote
I haven’t really rebelled. I just think my parents were right. I never disagreed with anything that I was brought up with, in terms of their values or politics. Ariel Levy Read Quote
I think it would be difficult to argue that I’m a net-negative for womankind. I’ve tried pretty hard to bring in unusual female voices and perspectives. Not just young women and not just white women, either. I don’t know that I’m the best target for improvement. I don’t know that I’m the problem. Ariel Levy Read Quote
I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease – I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost. Ariel Levy Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote