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Ariel Levy
American
Writer
Good
Marriage
Me
Think
Women
You
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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
Love
Great
Nothing
Community
About
Wedding
Blast
Celebration
Just
Romance
Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.
Ariel Levy
You
Grief
World
Walk
Through
Skinned
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.
Ariel Levy
Big
Other
Other Kids
Kids
Relentlessly
Impatient
Only
Only Child
Baffled
Knights
Adventure
House
Also
Make-Believe
Around
Verbal
Child
Pirates
Often
Preferred
Playing
I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.
Ariel Levy
Job
Think
Analyse
Examine
Through
Writer
Them
Activist
Things
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.
Ariel Levy
Work
Good
Generation
Women
World
Live
Assumption
Everything
Way
My Generation
Touched
Simply
Because
Feminist
Movement
Agenda
Means
Fortune
Good Fortune
Widespread
Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.
Ariel Levy
Marriage
Everyone
Compromise
Different
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.
Ariel Levy
You
Marriage
Dangerous
Too Much
Think
Too
Way
Married
Wrapped
About
More
Feel
Like
Make
Him
Spouse
Got
Up
Done
Much
Your
Found
Her
Need
It's a profound thing to watch another human being come out of your body.
Ariel Levy
Human Being
Out
Come
Another
Human
Being
Body
Your
Your Body
Thing
Watch
Profound
For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.
Ariel Levy
Life
Experience
Mother
Somebody
My Life
Minutes
Both
Most
Also
Transcendent
Traumatic
I think all the time about the ways in which I'm the beneficiary of the women's movement's success.
Ariel Levy
Success
Time
Women
Think
Ways
About
Movement
Which
I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.
Ariel Levy
Woman
Thought
Free
Become
Whatever
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Writer
She
Up
Wanted
Grew
Decided
Chooses
Who
Profession
Early
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.
Ariel Levy
Life
You
Single
Every
Thinking
Single Thing
Feminist
Want
Toddler
Thing
Every Single Thing
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.
Ariel Levy
Best
Women
Problem
Young
White
Difficult
Think
Would
Would-Be
Tried
Pretty
Voices
Argue
Know
Unusual
Female
Target
Improvement
Just
Either
Young Women
Perspectives
White Women
Hard
Bring
I'm not a polemicist; I had no business writing a polemic.
Ariel Levy
Business
Writing
No Business
Had
Polemic
I don't understand the interweb.
Ariel Levy
Understand
I was never any good at keeping secrets.
Ariel Levy
Good
Secrets
Never
Any
Keeping
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