90 Quotes by Ariel Levy

...if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.

A real editor isn't just someone you work with; he's your guide.

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

To become a mother, I feared, was to relinquish your status as the protagonist of your own life. Your questions were answered, your freedom was gone, your path would calcify in front of you. And yet it still pulled at me. Being a professional explorer would become largely impossible if I had a child, but having a kid seemed in many ways like the wildest possible trip.

It's just a place, not another state of being.

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.

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

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.

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.