"Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness,……" — Dorothy Allison
"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 love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence."
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Dorothy Allison
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70 Quotes by Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison has 70 quotes on this site.
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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated…
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was…
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat…
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Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical…
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Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.
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Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be…
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It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little…
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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
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Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that…
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I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
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More Anger Quotes
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right…
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the…
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful…
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
— Marcus Aurelius
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
— Francis Bacon
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
— Francis Bacon
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into…
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
— Abu Bakr
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