I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit by the bug of philosophy and wanted to be a philosophy professor. I went to graduate school and… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
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… — 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
