Quotes from Ariel Levy

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

Then we would go to the living room and sit on the blue couches, and Cat Stevens would sing on the record player, "I have my freedom / I can make my own rules.

We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol.

I was standing in the shower the other day, picking up my shampoo," she said. "It's called 'Dumb Blonde.' I thought, Thirty years ago you could not have sold this. I think we have lost consciousness of the way our culture demeans women.

This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminist. It's the thinking of a toddler.

I think what's dangerous about marriage is the way it can make you feel like you've got it all wrapped up. Like you're done: you've found your spouse, you've married him or her, and you don't need to think too much more about it.

The 10 or 20 minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic; there is no adventure I would have traded them for.

I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease - I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.

There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no arguing with either thing. I'm just Jewish.

For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.

I think it would be difficult to argue that I'm a net-negative for womankind. I've tried pretty hard to bring in unusual female voices and perspectives. Not just young women and not just white women, either. I don't know that I'm the best target for improvement. I don't know that I'm the problem.

It's a profound thing to watch another human being come out of your body.

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

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

I was not big on playing house. I preferred make-believe that revolved around adventure, featuring pirates and knights. I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids.

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