Quotes by Ariel Levy

“And youre going to teach me how to make love? It doesnt sound like much fun.”

You think youre being brave, you think youre being sexy, you think youre transcending feminism. But thats 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. But we can’t have it all.

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

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

People sometimes tells me that theyre baffled by bisexuality. They are convinced that having sex with women is totally different from having sex with men. But it isnt. No more than having sex with anyone is totally different from having sex with anyone else.

And the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebodys mother were black magic. There is nothing I would trade them for. There is no place I would rather have seen.

A wedding, a great wedding, is just a blast. A celebration of romance and community and love... What is unfun about that? Nothing.