Alix Kates Shulman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Life #Distance #Earth
My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Eye #Reflection #Mirrors
Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Reality #Thinking #Firsts
Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Emotional #Creating #Important
Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Men #Scary
It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the more rewarding if one succeeds. Rewarding not only to the work but to one's peace of mind.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Writing #Feelings #Mind
One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Passion #People #Feelings
Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Solitude #Groups #Doe
There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Jobs #Awareness #Inequality
Many people spend the ends of their lives alone, and probably a lot of years in the middle of their lives, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to experience the rewards of solitude.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Opportunity #Years #People
When farming became a corporate venture, and the distribution of food became corporate, the variety of foods that were considered good diminished greatly. I know that there's a lot of misconception about this, that people think we have more food variety than ever before, but, in fact, if you read any of the studies, you'll find we have fewer foods than before.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Thinking #People #Venture
I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd never make a husband a villain. I try very hard in my work not to - because if I made one man a villain, the rest would be off the hook. I'm interested in the system of oppression.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Husband #Men #Feminist
There is a lot of gender segregation. You still have many poor women who work in women-only jobs. In the family, in most cases, only women have the double job of working outside the home and taking care of the family.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Jobs #Home #Work Out
When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Queens #Writing #Prom Queen
For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Journey #Years #Wind
Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Emotional #Ordinary #Periods
In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Book #Ideas #Social
People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life." I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a big effect on them and enabled them to change. I'm not sure I believe that a book will cause someone to change.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Believe #Book #People
As I experienced life on the island, without electricity, plumbing or telephone, I thought it was important to show that people can live as I did without dying or falling apart. I wanted people to understand that we don't need everything that our culture tells us we have to have to be satisfied.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Fall #Islands #People
For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Unfinished Business #Parent #Guilt
When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Profound #Way #Mortality
I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Age #Usual #Natural
Ever since Freud, being alone has been considered something of a psychological failure. The point, according to Freudian theory, is to be able to love and connect. But I don't believe that at all. I think that being alone and being coupled and being in a group are all natural states in which people can thrive.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Believe #Thinking #People
I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Sex #Thinking #Kind

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