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  1. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    We didn't sit around looking at our phone or looking at our computer or looking at the television. We didn't sit around looking at screens. We didn't wait for a screen to give us a signal to do something: We were off doing whatever we wanted.
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  2. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    Writing was the solution to every problem.
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  3. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    To become a mother, I feared, was to relinquish your status as the protagonist of your own life.
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  4. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    People have been telling me since I was a little girl that I was too fervent, too forceful, too much. I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love in a life that could contain it. But it has exploded.
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  5. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    There was a corresponding orbit of moods this obligatory food preparation induced in my mother: no-nonsense competence, spunky pride, and seething resentment.
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  6. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    I got married a few years later-we all did. As we reached our thirtieth birthdays, my friends and I were like kernels of popcorn exploding in a pot: First one, then another, and pretty soon we were all bursting into matrimony. There were several years of peace, but then the pregnancies started popping. I found this unsettling."
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  7. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers, we want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, cosiness and thrills, but we can't have it all.
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  8. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    It's just a place, not another state of being.
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  9. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    But you can never tell with shadows. You have to be vigilant, always, because maybe you're crazy, but maybe you're right. I
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  10. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    I asked if she'd ever wanted children. She told me, "Everybody doesn't get everything.
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  11. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    My competent self is doing the talking; my bewildered self is being addressed.
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  12. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    It satisfied the edict my mother had issued many times throughout my life: "You have to make your own living; you never want to be dependent on a man.
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