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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alix Kates Shulman

When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to…

— 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…

— Alix Kates Shulman

I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alix Kates Shulman

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

— Alix Kates Shulman

I am not a psychological novelist, and I try very hard not to allow the reader to see the plight or circumstances…

— Alix Kates Shulman

Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.

— Alix Kates Shulman

Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from…

— Alix Kates Shulman

There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.

— Alix Kates Shulman

People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life." I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a…

— Alix Kates Shulman

In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.

— Alix Kates Shulman

My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.

— Alix Kates Shulman

As I experienced life on the island, without electricity, plumbing or telephone, I thought it was important to show that people can…

— Alix Kates Shulman

There is a lot of gender segregation. You still have many poor women who work in women-only jobs. In the family, in…

— Alix Kates Shulman

The world is abundant with food for us, and with everything we need, if only we just open our eyes. There's so…

— Alix Kates Shulman

One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into…

— Alix Kates Shulman