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I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

Dorothy Allison

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Story
Means
Tell
Stories
Mean
Life

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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.
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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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stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
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I claimed myself and remade my life.
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Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.
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He never said Don't tell your mama. He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)
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Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.
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And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.
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Why write stories? To join the conversation.
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I have a terrible memory.
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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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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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I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.
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It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
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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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