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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
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… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
Ever since Freud, being alone has been considered something of a psychological failure. The point, according to Freudian theory, is to be able to… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“His cup of tea did not include the dregs, though the dregs are the tea. His brew was nothing but vapor.” — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
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… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be different, and… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
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… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
