"One of the strengths I derive from my……" — Dorothy Allison
"One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt."
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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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Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex…
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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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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 Accustomed Quotes
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't…
— Terrence Trammell
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Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others
— Milarepa
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not…
— Brother Lawrence
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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