Sarah Schulman

“Nothing disrupts dehumanization more quickly than inviting someone over, looking into their eyes, hearing their voice, and listening.”

— 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.…

— Sarah Schulman

In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted…

— Sarah Schulman

I went to my 30th high school reunion, and I could tell who was gay and who was straight because the gay…

— Sarah Schulman

The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.

— Sarah Schulman

“You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting…

— Sarah Schulman

Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.

— 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.…

— 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…

— Sarah Schulman

Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to…

— Sarah Schulman

Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite…

— Sarah Schulman

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

— Sarah Schulman

“Strangely, the subsequent AIDS works that have become iconic in our culture rarely mention the movement, or the engaged community of lovers,…

— 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…

— Sarah Schulman

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

— Sarah Schulman

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

— Sarah Schulman

“They were both deciding not to be what others wanted them to be but to brand themselves for the world to see.…

— Sarah Schulman

My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.

— Sarah Schulman

HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have…

— Sarah Schulman

“Then they went on to discuss other things because there is always something more to a person than what somebody else does…

— Sarah Schulman

“All along, he had believed instinctually that his broken heart had something to do with the collapse of culture. He wanted to…

— Sarah Schulman

“Do most gay women love each other?” Doc asked. “A lot of them love closeted movie stars.”

— Sarah Schulman

“How could all the people understand the same thing? Was marketing the way to get her family to understand that her life…

— Sarah Schulman

I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both…

— Sarah Schulman

“It takes two to tango” isn’t even true on the dance floor. One person can do a lot of evil all on…

— Sarah Schulman