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title: "1 Queer-lit Quotes By Sarah Schulman"
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> [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/the-chain-booksellers-like-barnes-and-noble-began-to-dominate-the/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

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## More by Sarah Schulman

> [“Nothing disrupts dehumanization more quickly than inviting someone over, looking into their eyes, hearing their voice, and listening.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/nothing-disrupts-dehumanization-more-quickly-than-inviting-someone/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/i-realized-that-i-m-not-a-lesbian-anymore-i-realized-that-women-don-t/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

> [In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/in-the-past-heartland-whites-with-some-kind-of-dream-or-desire-left/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

> [I went to my 30th high school reunion, and I could tell who was gay and who was straight because the gay people were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/i-went-to-my-30th-high-school-reunion-and-i-could-tell-who-was-gay/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

> [The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/the-wind-smelled-clean-like-clean-magazines-it-smelled-like-invisible/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

> [“You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/you-tell-them-one-real-thing-and-then-the-doctor-thinks-he-knows-you/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

> [Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/since-freud-people-think-you-either-want-to-be-a-man-or-hate-men-you/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

> [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/you-re-not-user-friendly-you-re-too-needy-you-have-no-social-currency/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/doc-didn-t-have-a-television-but-he-could-predict-that-sort-of-thing/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

> [Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/probably-the-nature-of-homophobia-will-never-be-widely-interrogated/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

> [Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/breezy-journalistic-sentences-about-wealthy-white-people-unaware-that/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

> [If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/if-we-love-and-identity-people-with-hiv-and-other-oppressed-people-we/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

> [“Strangely, the subsequent AIDS works that have become iconic in our culture rarely mention the movement, or the engaged community of lovers, but both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/strangely-the-subsequent-aids-works-that-have-become-iconic-in-our/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/i-dreamt-that-i-took-william-burrough-s-penis-and-tied-it-up-with/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

> [Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-schulman/sometimes-a-person-has-to-stop-talking-about-art-for-a-moment-and/)

[Sarah Schulman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-schulman/)

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