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
What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
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Jodi Picoult
If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it. If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less. You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here. Life starts now, live, love,...
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Rob Liano
It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.
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Amy Poehler
The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
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Francis Chan
Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18)
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Prem Prakash
More Quotes By Ariel Levy
You think you're being brave, you think you're being sexy, you think you're transcending feminism. But that's bullshit. - Susan Brownmiller
Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?
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....
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.
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
