Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.
Alix Kates ShulmanI don't really think myself that sex work is necessarily more demeaning than other kinds of demeaning work.
Alix Kates ShulmanMany people spend the ends of their lives alone, and probably a lot of years in the middle of their lives, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to experience the rewards of solitude.
Alix Kates ShulmanWithin walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.
Alix Kates ShulmanFiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.
Alix Kates ShulmanI 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?
Alix Kates Shulman