Ariel Levy quote: "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."

I don't hear women who are less privileged thinking they're entitled to everything, whenever...
ARIEL LEVY

I liked the idea of being the kind of woman who'd go to the Gobi desert pregnant.
ARIEL LEVY

I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.
ARIEL LEVY

I feel like I turn into my grandma when I'm pecking away at Twitter. And I don't care.
ARIEL LEVY

I don't understand the interweb.
ARIEL LEVY

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

People didn't like me; I was loud and aggressive. People can take it from a 42-year-old, but whe...
ARIEL LEVY

I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents bui...
ARIEL LEVY

I was not big on playing house. I preferred make-believe that revolved around adventure, featuring p...
ARIEL LEVY

I think all the time about the ways in which I'm the beneficiary of the women's movement'...
ARIEL LEVY

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that...
ARIEL LEVY

For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most ...
ARIEL LEVY

It's a profound thing to watch another human being come out of your body.
ARIEL LEVY

I think what's dangerous about marriage is the way it can make you feel like you've got it a...
ARIEL LEVY

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to ...
ARIEL LEVY

Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.
ARIEL LEVY

I think it would be difficult to argue that I'm a net-negative for womankind. I've tried pre...
ARIEL LEVY

This thinking that you can have every single thing you want in life is not the thinking of a feminis...
ARIEL LEVY

The 10 or 20 minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic; there is no adventure I would hav...
ARIEL LEVY

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that we...
ARIEL LEVY

Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.
ARIEL LEVY

Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like...
ARIEL LEVY

I started keeping a diary in third grade and, in solidarity with Anne Frank, gave it a name and made...
ARIEL LEVY

A wedding, a great wedding, is just a blast. A celebration of romance and community and love... What...
ARIEL LEVY

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

But I would be happier if my daughter and her friends were crashing through the glass ceiling instea...
ARIEL LEVY

Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be l...
ARIEL LEVY

There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I...
ARIEL LEVY

And you're going to teach me how to make love? It doesn't sound like much fun.
ARIEL LEVY

People sometimes tells me that they're baffled by bisexuality. They are convinced that having sex wi...
ARIEL LEVY

It can be fun to feel exceptional--to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an h...
ARIEL LEVY

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tos...
ARIEL GORE

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.
ARIEL GORE

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about ...
ARIEL GORE

The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the indep...
ARIEL SHARON

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts ...
ARIEL GORE

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me h...
ARIEL GORE

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
ARIEL DURANT

Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in th...
ARIEL DORFMAN

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, gua...
ARIEL SHARON

It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how peop...
ARIEL RECHTSHAID

I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would ma...
ARIEL SHARON

What I've learned from my visit here is that the plan -- disengagement plan -- contributes to the se...
ARIEL SHARON

The United States was surprised to hear that Israel was allegedly planning to modify the (road map) ...
ARIEL SHARON

The handling of the problem of the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip is a very delicate and compli...
ARIEL SHARON

We attach vast importance to Egyptian activity in the Gaza Strip and along the border, but I don't i...
ARIEL SHARON

It is an old project launched by Ariel Sharon when he was housing minister nearly 15 years ago,
ARIEL SHARON

The terrorist attack was perpetrated by members of Islamic Jihad,
ARIEL SHARON

Palestinians who have reached a conclusion that, with terror, they can't achieve anything. And the w...
ARIEL SHARON

Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewi...
ARIEL SHARON

By now we're over 60 percent out... The number of infiltrators has been halved,
ARIEL SHARON

Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham
ARIEL SERAPHINO

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Je...
ARIEL SHARON

The power of a person derives not from the office he occupies but from a clear sense of direction an...
ARIEL SHARON

Arafat is the greatest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East.
ARIEL SHARON

Arafat is hosting, training, supporting, sponsoring terrorist organizations.
ARIEL SHARON

Arafat conducts terror; his strategy is the strategy of terror.
ARIEL SHARON

Jordan is Palestine. The capital of Palestine is Amman. If Palestinian Arabs want to find their poli...
ARIEL SHARON

Every Jew has the right to ascend onto the Temple Mount.
ARIEL SHARON

I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was ...
ARIEL PINK

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meani...
ARIEL PINK

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-li...
ARIEL GORE

I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know ...
ARIEL PINK

Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making...
ARIEL SHARON

Israel is a wonderful country. It's a beautiful country. It is ours. But it is a country with 10...
ARIEL SHARON

I call on the Western democracies and primarily on the leader of the free world, the United States: ...
ARIEL SHARON

It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Isr...
ARIEL SHARON

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every ...
ARIEL SHARON

Expressions of disobedience naturally encourage terrorist organizations and motivate them to intensi...
ARIEL SHARON

It was a grave mistake to dismantle the Jewish communities in Sinai.
ARIEL SHARON

David Ben-Gurion understood that the public's trust is given to a leader in order to lead, deter...
ARIEL SHARON

Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destructio...
ARIEL SHARON

Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channe...
ARIEL GARTEN

I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a ...
ARIEL RECHTSHAID

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing...
ARIEL DURANT

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno...
ARIEL PINK

birth pangs of a process.
ARIEL SHARON

All the prime ministers have built the settlement blocs, but I built more than all of them, ... Sett...
ARIEL SHARON

The early pictures of me you see online, in just T-shirts and hoodies - I'm still that guy with ...
ARIEL PINK

A day will come when other Israelis will be launched into space in the service of science and progre...
ARIEL SHARON

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails pain...
ARIEL SHARON

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part...
ARIEL PINK

On April 19 1943, the Bermuda conference gathered, with the participation of representatives from Br...
ARIEL SHARON

working document... not a take it or leave it document.
ARIEL SHARON

I'm in love with Ariana Grande - she's got a very curious personality; I hear she loves Fred...
ARIEL PINK

When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when t...
ARIEL GORE

The fight against terrorism is an international struggle of the free world against the forces of dar...
ARIEL SHARON

What would happen in the U.S. to terrorists who are not citizens? In less than 24 hours, they would ...
ARIEL SHARON

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown i...
ARIEL DORFMAN

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, t...
ARIEL DORFMAN

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
ARIEL DORFMAN

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my...
ARIEL WINTER

Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit i...
ARIEL PINK

I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can b...
ARIEL PINK

My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not...
ARIEL PINK

If there is ever to be an end to the conflict, the Palestinians must recognize the Jewish people'...
ARIEL SHARON

Every leaving of a Jewish community is a most difficult thing.
ARIEL SHARON

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that ...
ARIEL SHARON

Netanyahu feels the heat, ... In any stressful situation he immediately panics and loses his cool.
ARIEL SHARON

The Prime Minister's Office and the Defense Ministry have no knowledge whatsoever of an alleged appr...
ARIEL SHARON

undivided and eternal capital.
ARIEL SHARON

We're very grateful to all those who did what they could to bring Cuba into the Classic. We'll do ev...
ARIEL PESTANO

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happen...
ARIEL RECHTSHAID

A great moral shift has happened because of this trial ... whether he returns or not. I have no prob...
ARIEL DORFMAN

Areas that were given to the Palestinians -- there, I think the situation is irreversible and I don'...
ARIEL SHARON

strengthen and build the united Jerusalem, Israel's capital and the capital of the Jewish people for...
ARIEL SHARON

We don't have any intention whatsoever to use military force to solve the Palestinian problem. B...
ARIEL SHARON

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.
ARIEL GORE

my mood altered and the pain turned to rage.
ARIEL SHARON

Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as neces...
ARIEL SHARON

In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him
ARIEL SHARON

I am for lasting peace... United, I believe, we can win the battle for peace. But it must be a diffe...
ARIEL SHARON

As one who fought in all of Israel's wars, and learned from personal experience that without proper ...
ARIEL SHARON

At halftime we were all dying, but luckily we were having fun in the second half and didn't feel as ...
ARIEL SAMUELSON

Last year's class is obviously a very hard class to replace, but we're lucky to have a strong return...
ARIEL SAMUELSON

Today was absolutely awesome. I'm so excited for the rest of the season because we can only go up fr...
ARIEL SAMUELSON

We're very grateful for all those who did whatever they could in order to bring Cuba into the Classi...
ARIEL PESTANO

That was the most important play of the game. That would have been the tying run.
ARIEL PESTANO

The Puerto Rican team left its blood on the field.
ARIEL PESTANO

We left Cuba being amateurs and from the night to morning, we're pros.
ARIEL PESTANO

It was just settling in that I was there for the hurricane, and then I came here. Now it seems like ...
ARIEL LUCIUS

The State of Israel pushed us to build this place.
ARIEL KAHANA

We've been rejected at every turn.
ARIEL KAHANA

We are trying to create the idea that you mentor across cultures. Culture doesn't know boundaries. A...
ARIEL DORFMAN

The most idealistic group of people in Israel are being treated like common criminals.
ARIEL COHEN

Four years ago, when the SCO was formed, official Washington pooh-poohed it and declared it was no c...
ARIEL COHEN

[Freed says that the US has its own interests in the region, which could be commensurate with Russia...
ARIEL COHEN

I see this as nature's contribution to the celebration of the new millennium.
ARIEL COHEN

Sometimes you have regimes that you have to cut deals with because priority one is the war on terror...
ARIEL COHEN

My parents didn't want me going to school here at first because they thought we weren't going to hav...
ARIEL CAVANAUGH

There is baseball and softball. There is boys' basketball and girls' basketball. So if they're going...
ARIEL CAVANAUGH

That was huge. At first, I was hoping there would be enough on the roster just to fill up a field.
ARIEL CAVANAUGH

We have no plans of going hiding. We will be here in our office. On Wednesday, we will have a press ...
ARIEL CASILAO

There is a big possibility that there will be illegal arrest and worst, physical elimination of loca...
ARIEL CASILAO

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.
ARIEL PINK

Most everything influences my work. Working in a used bookstore. Going for walks in the woods and pe...
ARIEL GORDON

I'm so unmaterialistic in every way. If you saw my apartment, it would explain a lot, I think. I...
ARIEL PINK

Sharon wants to maintain the current political status quo so as to accomplish his objectives out of ...
ARIEL SHARON

We believe only in deeds and acts and not in declarations. We are fed up with all those declarations...
ARIEL SHARON

Hamas is a terror organization with a covenant that speaks about the elimination of the Jewish peopl...
ARIEL SHARON

We have to remember that Arafat was the one that started with hijacking airplanes already in 1968.
ARIEL SHARON

As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility f...
ARIEL SHARON

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and th...
ARIEL SHARON

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing ...
ARIEL DURANT

I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of ma...
ARIEL PINK

If shit was a currency, we would all be rich.
ARIEL KREZARIEN

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
ARIEL DORFMAN

She had over 200 herbs in her garden--over 40 varieties of lavender, and 20 varieties of basil.
ARIEL NISHRI

I heard that there is a demand that I make various pledges and promises. If the attempts to overthro...
ARIEL SHARON

not only on the Palestinian track (but) the Lebanese track and the Syrian track so that we can have ...
ARIEL SHARON

We do intend to proceed with the road map and achieve peace and tranquility in our area, but we will...
ARIEL SHARON

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on...
ARIEL DURANT

Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer
ARIEL SHARON

I'd describe my look as girly-edgy. I like black nail polish and eyeliner, but I'll wear the...
ARIEL WINTER

without blood on their hands.
ARIEL SHARON

You could make mistakes when you lived together because you knew you'd wake up the next morning with...
ARIEL SABAR

I told him [Cheney] that I think that I should be allowed to speak in front of the summit and explai...
ARIEL SHARON

Look, I've dealt with my extremists. Now Abbas should deal with his, and then let's see where to go ...
ARIEL SHARON

thereby saving the lives of many Israelis.
ARIEL SHARON

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.
ARIEL GORE

Your pain and your tears are an inseparable part of the history of this country. Whatever disagreeme...
ARIEL SHARON

To an outstretched hand of peace we will respond with an olive branch but expressions of terror will...
ARIEL SHARON

The murderers continue to go about their business. The Oslo (peace) accords that put the question of...
ARIEL SHARON

Hezbollah is a threat to regional stability as well as to Lebanon's internal stability, ... We must ...
ARIEL SHARON

The United States has stood beside us in difficult days and I think it is our duty to help it with w...
ARIEL SHARON

Never have I seen such a desire to capitulate.
ARIEL SHARON

Israel is being asked to pay by giving up a strategic asset while getting nothing in return.
ARIEL SHARON

if he were not here, it would be easier.
ARIEL SHARON

In any situation of pressure, he gets stressed immediately, ... He panics and loses control. I've se...
ARIEL SHARON

We are worried about this because it's not a good time to start relations with Israel,
ARIEL SHARON

The country has stood by us during difficult times and it is our duty to assist it in the areas in w...
ARIEL SHARON

This subject can come up only in the last stage because anything determined today will be used as a ...
ARIEL SHARON

This was a one-time action,
ARIEL SHARON

To run this country, to deal with the most complex and difficult problems, you need judgment and ner...
ARIEL SHARON

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses, ... to run a country like Is...
ARIEL SHARON

Whoever flees responsibility a week before presenting the state budget and abandons his work team is...
ARIEL SHARON

I think that this finished pretty well in comparison to our concerns,
ARIEL SHARON

The disengagement was a one-off step and I don't see another one,
ARIEL SHARON

I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all the...
ARIEL DORFMAN

Everybody has to move; run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements, because...
ARIEL SHARON

[•] We are in the process of verification of these reports, ... What we assume, and again I say we...
ARIEL SHARON

Blood is boiling, and justly,
ARIEL SHARON

a despicable act by a bloodthirsty terrorist.
ARIEL SHARON

I am aware that peace requires painful compromises. Any agreements will be based on security,
ARIEL SHARON

A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.
ARIEL SHARON

There is no bullet-proof vest in my size.
ARIEL SHARON

I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics.
ARIEL SHARON

I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refo...
ARIEL GARTEN

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness ...
ARIEL GORE

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and...
ARIEL DORFMAN

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.
ARIEL PINK

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
ARIEL DURANT

To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences...
ARIEL SHARON

Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stre...
ARIEL GARTEN

I have two lovely parents who support everything I do, two siblings, and three beautiful nieces. My ...
ARIEL WINTER

In this moment, everything is sacred.
ARIEL BOOKS

Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions ...
ARIEL SHARON

If cars and buses were attacked daily by petrol bombs or stones for 16 months in Washington, could y...
ARIEL SHARON

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Isra...
ARIEL SHARON

You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withst...
ARIEL SHARON

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 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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