Ariel Levy Quotes

But you can never tell with shadows. You have to be vigilant, always, because maybe you’re crazy, but maybe you’re right. I

Writing was the solution to every problem.

New York Times help-wanted ads, which were once arranged by gender to distinguish women’s work from real careers.

Writing was the solution to every problem—financial, emotional, intellectual. It had kept me company when I was a lonely child. It gave me an excuse to go places I would otherwise be unlikely to ventu...

Chest—I could hear him denigrating Obama at the top of his lungs, which seemed to make Mary only slightly less uncomfortable than it made me. A few weeks before the trip, she said, when she was in the...

Our national love of porn and pole dancing is not the byproduct of a free and easy society with an earthy acceptance of sex. It is a desperate stab at freewheeling eroticism in a time and place charac...

Passion isn't the point. The glossy, overheated thumping of sexuality in our culture is less about connection than consumption. Hotness has become our cultural currency, and a lot of people spend a lo...

The Supreme Court could have said, You’re just these fringe women in combat boots. But they didn’t.

People sometimes tells me that they're baffled by bisexuality. They are convinced that having sex with women is totally different from having sex with men. But it isn't. No more than having sex with a...

She said, Everything happens for a reason. Technically, that is a statement of fact. The reason I was talking to that woman was that she was friends with David. The reason she was friends with David w...

I had occasion to talk to Erica Jong, one of the most famous sex-positive feminists—one of the most interviewed people in the world, as she’s put it—on the thirtieth anniversary of her novel Fear of F...

All of my conjuring had led only to ruin and death. Now I was a wounded witch, waiting in the forest, undone.

I wanted what she [her mother] had wanted, what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle aged...

If half this country feels so threatened by two people of the same gender being in love and having sex (and, incidentally, enjoying equal protection under the law), that they turn their attention—duri...

But in a strange way, I am comforted by the truth. Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out alive. Accepting this rule gives me a funny...

We didn’t sit around looking at our phone or looking at our computer or looking at the television. We didn’t sit around looking at screens. We didn’t wait for a screen to give us a signal to do someth...

It's just a place, not another state of being.

John Updike wrote that marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over, until the words become madness.

Daring to think that the rules do not apply is the mark of a visionary. It’s also a symptom of narcissism. —

It is not a good feeling being right about something you have suspected when you finally gain undeniable confirmation that it's true. It is not the satisfying sensation of everything slipping into pla...