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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
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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.
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Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.
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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.
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I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.
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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.
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Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.
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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.
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It's a profound thing to watch another human being come out of your body.
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For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.
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No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.
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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.
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