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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
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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
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Greenville
South Carolina
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Why write stories? To join the conversation.
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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 the world has made for me.
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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.
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