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

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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 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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Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“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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Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.”

Feels Can Do Novel Emotional Periods Ordinary

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

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

Important Fiction Emotional Creating Aspect

Author: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 transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.”

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Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth.”

Humans Rights Criticism Islam Human Rights Individuality Originality Medieval Dogmatic Fortresses

Author:Wafa Sultan

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