Alix Kates Shulman Quotes

born 1932 United States

Alix Kates Shulman (born August 17, 1932) is a Jewish writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism in the USA. She is best known for her bestselling debut adult novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (Knopf, 1972).

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Advocates, no matter how old, face forward and upward toward the light; funerals can only momentarily divert them.

A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing (2012)

Once a writer has published a book, it belongs to its readers.

Interview with Jewish Women's Archive (2016)

Each generation must define the problems anew, from their own observations and experience.

Interview with Jewish Women's Archive (2016)

As a feminist, I believe that individuals on their own cannot change the culture; individual solutions don’t have traction. It takes a mass movement to really change things.

Interview with Jewish Women's Archive (2016)

each generation can do no more than add its bit to the endless river of consciousness and change, and that's about as good as it gets.

A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing (2012)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alix Kates Shulman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.