Books Quote by Alix Kates Shulman

Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.

— Alix Kates Shulman

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

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

“His cup of tea did not include the dregs, though the dregs are the tea. His brew was nothing but vapor.”

— Alix Kates Shulman

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

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

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

I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.

— Alix Kates Shulman

For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

— Alix Kates Shulman

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

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

I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit by the…

— Alix Kates Shulman