Quotes by Ariel Levy

About Ariel Levy:

Ariel Levy is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the book Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Vogue, Slate, and the New York Times. Levy was named one of the "Forty Under 40" most influential out individuals in the June/July 2009 issue of The Advocate.
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A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality.

Ariel Levy

You think you're being brave, you think you're being sexy, you think you're transcending feminism. But that's bullshit. - Susan Brownmiller

Ariel Levy

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

Ariel Levy

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.

Ariel Levy

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

Ariel Levy

Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be like a woman. And as long as womanhood is thought of as something to escape from, something less than manhood, you will be thought less of, too.

Ariel Levy

...if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.

Ariel Levy

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.

Ariel Levy

Author Bio

  • NameAriel Levy
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornOctober 17, 1974
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksFemale Chauvinist Pigs