“ It can be fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man. But if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are infer… Ariel Levy
“ Anything seemed possible if you had ingenuity, money, and tenacity. But the body doesn't play by those rules. Ariel Levy
“ In writing you can always change the ending or delete a chapter that isn’t working. Life is uncooperative, impartial, incontestable. Ariel Levy
“ Marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over, until the words become madness. DJ Ariel Levy
“ But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody’s mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen. -Thanksgiving in Mongoli… Ariel Levy
“ Proving that you are hot, worthy of lust, and—necessarily—that you seek to provoke lust is still exclusively women’s work. Ariel Levy
“ These are not stories about girls getting what they want sexually, they are stories about girls gaining acclaim socially, for which their sexuality is a tool. Ariel Levy
“ It didn’t help when Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael made his notorious comment to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: The position of women in SNCC is prone. Ariel Levy
“ A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality. Ariel Levy
“ You have an affair because you are not getting what you want from your loved one. You want more: more love, more sex, more attention, more fun. You want someone to look at you with lust - after years… Ariel Levy
“ Objectification is rooted in disrespect, condescending views of the opposite gender, and power struggles. When men realize that they have the capability to fundamentally respect women, and women reali… Ariel Levy
“ Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland…those are the games men play. We see it differently. We want to be nei… Ariel Levy
“ But I would be happier if my daughter and her friends were crashing through the glass ceiling instead of the sexual ceiling,' Jong continued. 'Being able to have an orgasm with a man you don't love or… Ariel Levy
“ Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as something outside the normal bounds of womanhood. Ariel Levy
“ I was standing in the shower the other day, picking up my shampoo, she said. It’s called ‘Dumb Blonde.’ I thought, Thirty years ago you could not have sold this. I think we have lost consciousness of… Ariel Levy
“ 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
“ When I was young. When I had no idea that all over the city, all over the world, there were people walking around sealed in their own universes of loss, independent solar systems of suffering closed o… Ariel Levy
