\'I wanted what we all want: everything.
But it has exploded.\'Levy\'s own story of resilience becomes an unforgettable portrait of the shifting forces in our culture, of what has changed - and what never can..
But all of her assumptions about what she can control are undone after a string of overwhelming losses.\'I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love in a life that could contain it.
But we can\'t have it all.\'Ariel Levy picks you up and hurls you through the story of how she lived believing that conventional Rules no longer applied - that marriage doesn\'t have to mean monogamy, that aging doesn\'t have to mean infertility, that she could be \'the kind of woman who is free to do whatever she chooses\'.
We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills.
We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers.
We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. \'I wanted what we all want: everything
