Best Dorothy Allison Sayings
- Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself… Become Capable
- I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to… From
- He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what… Anyone
- I was no Cherokee. I was no warrior. I was nobody special. I was just a girl, scared and angry. When I saw myself in… Already Dead
- The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the… Book
- I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253) Fell
- 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 you… Fear
- she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant Balance
- Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. Apart
- I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft. Began
- Why write stories? To join the conversation. Conversation
- I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do… Begin
- Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me. From
- Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the… All
- Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not… Both
- And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We listen… Angry
- For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I… All
- I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from… Abandoned
- My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to reach everyone. Therefore… Any
- My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class… Afraid