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

~Ariel Levy

Topics: About Movement Success Think Time Ways Which Women I Think

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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

Topics: Adventure Also Around Baffled Big Child House Impatient Kids Knights Make-Believe Often Only Only Child Other Other Kids Pirates Playing Preferred Relentlessly Verbal

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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.

~Ariel Levy

Topics: Back Brave Built Ease Fort Girl Ill Little Little Girl Lost Me Neither Nor Parents Played Popular Robinson Small Surviving Wooden Yard

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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

Topics: Become Chooses Decided Early Free Grew Kind Profession She Thought Up Wanted Whatever Who Woman Would Writer

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

~Ariel Levy

Topics: Adventure Black Black Magic Magic Minutes Mother Somebody Them Traded Were Would

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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

Topics: Every Every Single Thing Feminist Life Single Single Thing Thing Thinking Toddler Want You

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People didn't like me; I was loud and aggressive. People can take it from a 42-year-old, but when you're a little kid, and people are like, 'You're loud and awful,' you think, 'I guess I am awful,' so writing and figuring out how to put things into words was the way I felt better.

~Ariel Levy

Topics: Aggressive Am Awful Better Felt Figuring Guess How Kid Like Little Little Kid Loud Me Out People Put Take Things Think Way Words Writing You I Am

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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

Topics: Argue Best Bring Difficult Either Female Hard Improvement Just Know Perspectives Pretty Problem Target Think Tried Unusual Voices White Women Would Young Young Women I Think

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Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like making the puzzle or whatever, then my ambition changed, and I thought, 'Now I want to be a good writer.' And that became my ambition.

~Ariel Levy

Topics: Ambition Became Changed Getting Good Good Writer Gross Having Like Lots Making Now Once Other Paid Puzzle Responsibilities Started Then Thought Want Whatever Writer

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

~Ariel Levy

Topics: Business Had No Business Polemic Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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