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I have a terrible memory.

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Terrible
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What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
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Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.
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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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I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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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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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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Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
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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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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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Life ain't the movies.
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Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
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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.
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
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I claimed myself and remade my life.
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I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)
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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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It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.
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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.
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