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From Quotes by Dorothy Allison
- Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
- One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
- 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…
- Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
- The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create…
- Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure
- 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…
- Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.
- 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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