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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 completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.

Dorothy Allison

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Different
Lives
Completely
Something
Else
Lose
Remade
Love
Another
Joy
Owns
Life
Become
Loses
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Power
Knew
Claimed
Women
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Body
Pleasure
Finding
Giving
Desire
Capable

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Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.
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People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.
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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 library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)
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Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning’s a sin, it’s pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I’m fine.
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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 made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.
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