The movement for women's ...

The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be different, and ideas about how they should be. I think fiction can capture that kind of thing better than other genres because in fiction you can explore the feelings of your characters - the before and the after.
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 Alix Kates Shulman

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Ever since Freud, being alone has been considered something of a psychological failure. The point, according to Freudian theory, is to be able to love and connect. But I don't believe that at all. I think that being alone and being coupled and being in a group are all natural states in which people can thrive.
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 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.
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 Alix Kates Shulman
Our society has very much limited our choices, even regarding the food we think acceptable.
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 Alix Kates Shulman
When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.
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 Alix Kates Shulman
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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 Alix Kates Shulman