“They were both deciding not to be what others wanted them to be but to brand themselves for the world to see. To do their own packaging, so to speak, and to direct their powers to their specific target audiences.” — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“Nothing disrupts dehumanization more quickly than inviting someone over, looking into their eyes, hearing their voice, and listening.” — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“I realized that I’m not a lesbian anymore. I realized that women don’t have fun together. I realized that that’s not love. I realized… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
I went to my 30th high school reunion, and I could tell who was gay and who was straight because the gay people were… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“You’re not user-friendly. You’re too needy. You have no social currency. You’re a freak. Without a normative side, you can’t get in. That’s it.… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“Doc didn’t have a television but he could predict that sort of thing. He just didn’t need one. He could always tell what was… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
