Zitat des Tages von Ariel Levy:
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.
Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.
I feel like I turn into my grandma when I'm pecking away at Twitter. And I don't care.
For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.
It's a profound thing to watch another human being come out of your body.
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 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 think all the time about the ways in which I'm the beneficiary of the women's movement's success.
I was never any good at keeping secrets.
I don't understand the interweb.
I'm not a polemicist; I had no business writing a polemic.
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.
A wedding, a great wedding, is just a blast. A celebration of romance and community and love... What is unfun about that? Nothing.
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.
I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.
