10 Quotes & Sayings By Ariel Levy

Ariel Levy is a columnist for The New Yorker, where she writes about parenting, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of five books: The Rules Do Not Apply: Dispatches from the Post-Feminist Era (2010), Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (2010), The Rules Do Not Apply: Unwritten Rules of Dating (2010), The Rules Do Not Apply: The Unwritten Rules of Engagement (2010) and Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (2008). In 2010, she was one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people.

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You think you're being brave, you think you're being sexy, you think you're transcending feminism. But that's bullshit. - Susan Brownmiller Ariel Levy
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Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification? Ariel Levy
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I 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 mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can’t have it all. Ariel Levy
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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
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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 Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue Ariel Levy
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What peace it must be to know that someone is yours, no matter what - it is ordained, can never be otherwise. Ariel Levy
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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 anyone is totally different from having sex with anyone else. Ariel Levy
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And the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is nothing I would trade them for. There is no place I would rather have seen. Ariel Levy
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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