90 Quotes by Ariel Levy

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

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.

I think all the time about the ways in which I'm the beneficiary of the women's movement's success.

Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.

I'm not a polemicist; I had no business writing a polemic.

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.

I don't hear women who are less privileged thinking they're entitled to everything, whenever they want it. That's a privilege phenomenon, but it is a phenomenon.

I don't understand the interweb.

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