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…

- Alix Kates Shulman

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.

- 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

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

- Alix Kates Shulman

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

- 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