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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
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Greenville
South Carolina
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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 a living at it is astonishing.
Dorothy Allison
Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
Dorothy Allison
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
Dorothy Allison
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.
Dorothy Allison
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 from nothing.
Dorothy Allison
And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.
Dorothy Allison
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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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.
Dorothy Allison
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
Dorothy Allison
Life ain't the movies.
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stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
Dorothy Allison
Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.
Dorothy Allison
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
Dorothy Allison
Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.
Dorothy Allison
fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
Dorothy Allison
I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
Dorothy Allison
I claimed myself and remade my life.
Dorothy Allison
I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.
Dorothy Allison
Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
Dorothy Allison
People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.
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