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Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

Dorothy Allison

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Dorothy Allison
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 11
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Greenville
South Carolina
Demand
Justice
Universe
Writing
Way
Uncaring

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fiction is the great lie that tells the truth
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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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stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
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Why write stories? To join the conversation.
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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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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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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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