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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.

Alix Kates Shulman's Popular Quotes

It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the m…

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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 trans…

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

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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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Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

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

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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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