“The chain booksellers, like Barnes and Noble, began to dominate the market, and they instituted a “gay and lesbian” section in many of their branch stores. This section was never positioned at the front of the store with the bestsellers.… — 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
“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
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
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
The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share
“Strangely, the subsequent AIDS works that have become iconic in our culture rarely mention the movement, or the engaged community of lovers, but both… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share
“I dreamt that I took William Burrough’s penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting…In the next… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share
Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share
