Top 37 Ariel Levy Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. The whole point is that everybody gets to marry the person they love.

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. There were shadows I saw out of the corner of my eye that looked like problems waiting to become real, but you never know with shadows.

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#8. 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

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#9. You have an affair to get for yourself what you wish would come from the person you love the most. And then you have broken her heart and she can never give you any of it ever again.

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#10. But the danger that we invite into our lives can come in the most unthreatening shape, the

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#11. 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.

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#12. There is something of value in trying to put the world into words.

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#13. 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.

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#14. This may seem confusing considering the "swing to the right" this country has taken, but raunch culture transcends elections. The values people vote for are not necessarily the same values they live by. No region of the United States has a higher divorce rate than the Bible Belt.

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#15. We skipped over the part where we just accept and respect that some women like to seem exhibitionistic and lickerish, and decided instead that everyone who is sexually liberated ought to be imitating strippers and porn stars.

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#16. There is nothing I love more than traveling to a place where I know nobody, and where everything will be a surprise, and then writing about it. It's like having a new lover - even the parts you aren't crazy about have the crackling fascination of the unfamiliar.

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

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

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#19. What peace it must be to know that someone is yours, no matter what - it is ordained, can never be otherwise.

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#20. If you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress

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#21. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising.

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#22. 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.

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#23. I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids. I was not a popular little girl.

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#24. We are still so uneasy with the vicissitudes of sex we need to surround ourselves with caricatures of female hotness to safely conjure up the concept 'sexy'.

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#25. Writing is communicating with an unknown intimate who is always available, the way the faithful turn to God.

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#26. I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

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#27. Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be like a woman. And as long as womanhood is thought of as something to escape from, something less than manhood, you will be thought less of, too.

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#28. You think you're being brave, you think you're being sexy, you think you're transcending feminism. But that's bullshit. - Susan Brownmiller

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#29. Women of my generation were given the lavish gift of our own agency by feminism - a belief that we could decide for ourselves how we would live, what would become of us.

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#30. Female Chauvinist Pigs don't bother to question the criteria on which women are judged, they are too busy judging other women themselves

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#31. 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.

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#32. Daring to think that the rules do not apply is the mark of a visionary. It's also a symptom of narcissism. -

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#33. Proving that you are hot, worthy of lust, and - necessarily - that you seek to provoke lust is still exclusively women's work.

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#34. Sex is one of the most interesting things we as humans have to play with, and we've reduced it to polyester underpants and implants. We are selling ourselves unbelievably short.

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#35. Or maybe it was too late, and I had already chosen, inadvertently and incrementally, to be something else.

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#36. 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.

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#37. Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?

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