18+ Sarah Schulman Quotes On Education, Friendship And Religion

Sarah Schulman is an American novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, and AIDS activist. She is best known for her novels People in Trouble, Rat Bohemia, and The Cosmopolitans, as well as her nonfiction works Conflict Is Not Abuse and Israel/Palestine and the Queer International. She is also the co-founder of the New York City-based Lesbian Avengers, an LGBTQ direct action group. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Sarah Schulman on education, friendship, religion.

I went to my 30th high school reunion, and I could tell who was gay and who was straight because the gay people were like, 'Sarah, you've been doing so much,' and the straight people were like, 'So, Sarah, what have you been doing? — Sarah Schulman

Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a problematic one because it maintains our existence as a category of deviance. I mean, no one is running around trying to figure out why some people like sports, for example. — Sarah Schulman

Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs. — Sarah Schulman

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood. — Sarah Schulman

My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people. — Sarah Schulman

You have to have coalitions in order to make change in America. — Sarah Schulman

HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200 people to date who have not infected anyone, and half of them are black. This is emotional manipulation that began as an anti-immigrant measure and has devolved into an exploitation of sexual anxiety. It's a crisis of meaning. — Sarah Schulman

What I tend to tell my students is, “When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable.” — Sarah Schulman

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it. — Sarah Schulman

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around. — Sarah Schulman

I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible. — Sarah Schulman

Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men. — Sarah Schulman

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic. — Sarah Schulman

People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them. — Sarah Schulman

I am not here to entertain straight people. — Sarah Schulman

The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink. — Sarah Schulman

I want to be a witness to my own time because I've had a sneaking suspicion lately that I'm gonna live a lot longer than most of the people I meet. If I'm gonna be the only one still around to say what happened, I'd better pay close attention now. — Sarah Schulman

Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided. But in the midst of all this only one thing has changed for certain. We have changed. We will never go back into the closet. — Sarah Schulman

Life Lessons by Sarah Schulman

1. Sarah Schulman's work emphasizes the importance of understanding and accepting people from all backgrounds and experiences, regardless of their differences.
2. She encourages readers to challenge oppressive systems and strive for social justice for all.
3. Through her writing, she encourages readers to be open-minded and to think critically about the world around them.