Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

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…

- 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 social trans…

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

- 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

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

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

- Alix Kates Shulman