Ariel Levy Quotes

“We waited for our periods with excitement! ...We were delighted by the different silky weaves, the various crotch-conforming shapes, and the promise they held: The future is coming.”

Women Girls Period Reproductive

Book:The Rules Do Not Apply

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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.”

Writing Freedom Growing Up Feminist Goals Decisions Woman Career Autonomy Female Writer

Book:The Rules Do Not Apply

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“Character is who you are when nobody else is watching,” he wrote in one of his books—the undeniable, hokey truth.”

Character Mike Huckabee

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“The truth is that the new conception of raunch culture as a path to liberation rather than oppression is a convenient (and lucrative) fantasy with nothing to back it up. Or, as Susan Brownmiller put it when I asked her what she made of all this, “You think you’re being brave, you think you’re being sexy, you think you’re transcending feminism. But that’s bullshit.”

Feminism

Book:Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

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“Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?”

Feminism

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“Sex that accomplishes this kind of transfiguration is a drug. It is not an easy thing to deny yourself once you know exactly where to get it.”

Sex Relationships

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“We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers, we want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, cosiness and thrills, but we can't have it all.”

Immaturity Antithesis

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“It can be fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man. But if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven't made any progress.”

Feminism Misogyny Gender Equality Gender Roles Raunch Culture

Book:Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

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

Relocating Travel As Escape

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“Fertility meant nothing to us in our twenties; it was something to be secured in the dungeon and left there to molder. In our early thirties, we remembered it existed and wondered if we should check on it, and then—abruptly, horrifyingly—it became urgent: Somebody find that dragon! It was time to rouse it, get it ready for action. But the beast had not grown stronger during the decades of hibernation. By the time we tried to wake it, the dragon was weakened, wizened. Old.”

Women Fertility Reproductive Life

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“It was made clear that sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy were simply not for us: We were to use birth control and go to college and if we somehow got pregnant too soon or with the wrong guy, we were to abort. There was no mention of the possibility that we might want to get pregnant too late.”

Women Motherhood Reproductive Life

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“But I would be happier if my daughter and her friends were crashing through the glass ceiling instead of the sexual ceiling,' Jong continued. 'Being able to have an orgasm with a man you don't love or having Sex and the City on television, that is not liberation. If you start to think about women as if we're all Carrie on Sex and the City, well, the problem is: You're not going to elect Carrie to the Senate or to run your company. Let's see the Senate fifty percent female; let's see women in decision-making positions--that's power. Sexual freedom can be a smokescreen for how far we haven't come.”

Erica Jong

Book:Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Source: Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

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