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Been Quotes by Dorothy Allison
- 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…
- 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…
- I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.
- I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make…
- My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had…
- Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
- And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We listen…
- 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…
- 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…
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