Dorothy Allison Quotes

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• Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
• Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
• Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
• I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same…
• Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for…
• Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the…
• Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.
• Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been…
• Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is…
• It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make…
• One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
• Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go on living I…
• I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
• I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven…
• When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
• I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.
• 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 hear.
• There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God…
• I claimed myself and remade my life.
• 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, and…

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