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 was never any good at keeping secrets. ”

I started keeping a diary in third grade and, in solidarity with Anne Frank, gave it a name and made it my confidante. To this day, I feel comforted and relieved of loneliness, no matter how foreign my surroundings, if I have a pad and a pen with which to record my experiences. ”

For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

A wedding, a great wedding, is just a blast. A celebration of romance and community and love... What is unfun about that? Nothing. ”