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Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from way across the ocean circulates in the air.
Alix Kates Shulman
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Alix Kates Shulman
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: August 17
Novelist
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Cleveland
Ohio
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There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.
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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 head-on.
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Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.
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Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.
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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 a husband a villain. I try very hard in my work not to - because if I made one man a villain, the rest would be off the hook. I'm interested in the system of oppression.
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For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.
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Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.
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I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.
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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 if one succeeds. Rewarding not only to the work but to one's peace of mind.
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Many people spend the ends of their lives alone, and probably a lot of years in the middle of their lives, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to experience the rewards of solitude.
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I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.
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Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see you think it's just reality.
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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 everything that our culture tells us we have to have to be satisfied.
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One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.
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For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.
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