“even perhaps something about how love can both save us and not save us.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“He loves her like a gambler loves a fast racehorse or a desperate man loves whiskey. That kind of love eats a… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Romantic love continues the status quo in which we both are victimized and victimize each other.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“my tribe: raped children, working-class girls, and those raised to both love and hate their own as I had been.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“I reminded myself that there were just some things we never had talked about before, like sex, money, and broken bones. Certainly… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
My sisters, we didn't like each other as kids. We were scared of each other, I think, but we've grown to love… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“wanted an operation, not the boy-making kind, but a lever in the flesh, one I could permanently switch to off. I longed… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“When I finally let someone into my narrow bed, the first thing I told her was what I could not do. I… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Love was something I would not have to worry about - the whole mystery of love, heartbreak songs, and family legends. Women… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Women. Lord God, I used to follow these girls. THey would come at me, those girls who were not really girls anymore.… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“My family of friends has kept me alive through lovers who have left, enterprises that have failed, and all too many stories… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Simple answers, reductionist politics, are the most prone to compromise, to saying we’re addressing the essential issue and all that other stuff can slide.… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“I had to say to her that it isn’t just men, and it isn’t just men “like that.” I had to talk to her… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Entitlement, I have told them, is a matter of feeling like we rather than they.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Love was something I would not have to worry about - the whole mystery of love, heartbreak songs, and family legends. Women who pined,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Behind the story I tell is the one I don't. Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
