Quotes from Alix Kates Shulman

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

If one day I should hear the hacker's slow, booted step on the stair, perhaps I'll suggest a cup of tea and try to get the story of his life.

His cup of tea did not include the dregs, though the dregs are the tea. His brew was nothing but vapor.

Like the shore changing with the swing of the tides, I seem to be uncovering long-hidden propensities, dormant aspects of myself newly exposed by the pull of the moon. For here I am when the tide goes out - speeder slowing down, fighter finding harmony, activist turned contemplative, analyzer seeking synthesis, communard become solitaire, rationalist grown spiritual, teacher turned student, desired dissolving in contentment.

When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.

Being alone for a woman is probably much more scary than for a man. I'm all for getting over our fears by facing them head-on.

There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.

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