Advocates, no matter how old, face forward and upward toward the light; funerals can only momentarily divert them. - Alix Kates Shulman

Each generation must define the problems anew, from their own observations and experience.

(about writing her 1972 novel Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen) I wanted to show everything that we were talking about, in consciousness-raising

“Looks were an advantage for getting a husband, and getting a husband was everything,” Shulman explains. “You couldn’t even go to upscale restaurants in the evening if you were a woman alone or even two women. You had to have a man with you. It’s very hard for people to understand what it was like then.