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“For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.”

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Alix Kates Shulman

Alix Kates Shulman is an American writer renowned for her contributions to feminism and social issues. Born on August 17, 1932, she has made a significant impact on the literary world with her insightful and thought-provoking narratives. more

“I was absolutely floored as a lot of people are but also I was reunited with ideas that I actually had as a teenager and these are ideas that I had put away as I approached college years because they were ridiculous on the face of it and when you talk to someone about living forever, they just dismiss you out of hand.”

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Author:Barry Ptolemy

“I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.”

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Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“I think that having been around computers all my life - my father had brought home personal computers at a very early age in the '70s - so being around computers from a very early age perhaps I had even subconsciously seen the exponential progression of what was happening with computers.”

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Author:Barry Ptolemy

“I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to his will and is so confident that he ends up creating something that is the island in the stream of pop culture and he takes a stand that's so firm and so confident and unyielding that it can't be ignored and I appreciate that.”

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Author:Barry Ptolemy

“I don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.”

Thinking Kind Sex Sex Work Demeaning

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”

“I think that people talk about radical life extensions as if it is just one linear kind of journey, when actually what's going to happen is we're going to radically expand our lives billions and billions of times in every way, in every dimension and so I'm looking forward to things I can't even imagine yet.”

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Author:Barry Ptolemy

“I'd love to live nonbiologically and move about at the speed of light and be in communication with a million people at once and create works of art that are grand and sophisticated and very human at the same time so all these types of things.”

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Author:Barry Ptolemy

“I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd never make a husband a villain. I try very hard in my work not to - because if I made one man a villain, the rest would be off the hook. I'm interested in the system of oppression.”

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Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call paranoid - because they are in such danger. I don't know if it's really paranoia because they are in great danger. Terrible things happen to them, and they lose everything. How could they not become at the very least severely depressed?”

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