As a feminist, I believe that individuals on their own cann… - Alix Kates Shulman

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As a feminist, I believe that individuals on their own cannot change the culture; individual solutions don’t have traction. It takes a mass movement to really change things.

Alix Kates Shulman

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Alix Kates Shulman (born August 17, 1932) is a Jewish writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism in the USA. She is best known for her bestselling debut adult novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (Knopf, 1972).

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