“Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.” ThinkingFirstsHardRealitySexism Book:Burning questions: a novel Source: Burning questions: a novel
“I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit by the bug of philosophy and wanted to be a philosophy professor. I went to graduate school and quickly discovered it was impossible for a woman in those days - this was the early fifties - to be a philosopher, so I gave that up.” FirstsPhilosophyWantedSchoolFatherBitsImpossiblePhilosopherLawyerProfessorsGraduatesBugsGraduate School Author: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.” WritingFirstsNovelMovementProductsLateFeministMemoirQueensSixtyExesUrgentUrgencyPromProm Queen Author:Alix Kates Shulman
