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“For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.”

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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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“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.”

Ends Age Natural Embrace Old Age Inevitable Treatment Usual Dread

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.”

Thinking Home Age Father Computer Happenings Progression Personal Computers

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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“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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