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Dorothy Allison Quotes

I don’t believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you Picture Quote #1

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been Picture Quote #1

My life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying Picture Quote #1

Don’t go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It’s nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain’t for real. It’s like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain Picture Quote #1

Stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world Picture Quote #1

People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back Picture Quote #1

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Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt Picture Quote #1

Every kid I meet who’s a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it’s the one place where you can do the forbidden Picture Quote #1

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form Picture Quote #1

My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had been was gone with the child she had been. We were new people, and we didn’t know each other anymore. I shook my head desperately Picture Quote #1

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal Picture Quote #1

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt Picture Quote #1

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them Picture Quote #1

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside Picture Quote #1

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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She got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I told people, I take damage like a wall, a brick wall that never falls down, never feels anything, never flinches or remembers. I am one woman but I carry in my body all the stories I have ever been told, women I have known, women who have taken damage until they tell themselves they can feel no pain at all Picture Quote #1

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time Picture Quote #1

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means Picture Quote #1

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else’s was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared Picture Quote #1

Behind the story I tell is the one I don’t... Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don’t think love saves you Picture Quote #1

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I don’t believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you (Dorothy Allison Quotes) Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been (Dorothy Allison Quotes) My life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying (Dorothy Allison Quotes) Don’t go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It’s nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain’t for real. It’s like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain (Dorothy Allison Quotes) Stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world (Dorothy Allison Quotes) People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back (Dorothy Allison Quotes) Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt (Dorothy Allison Quotes) Every kid I meet who’s a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it’s the one place where you can do the forbidden (Dorothy Allison Quotes) Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form (Dorothy Allison Quotes) My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had been was gone with the child she had been. We were new people, and we didn’t know each other anymore. I shook my head desperately (Dorothy Allison Quotes) The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal (Dorothy Allison Quotes) When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels (Dorothy Allison Quotes) 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 (Dorothy Allison Quotes) One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt (Dorothy Allison Quotes) I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them (Dorothy Allison Quotes) Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside (Dorothy Allison Quotes) I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations (Dorothy Allison Quotes) 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 Quotes) She got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant (Dorothy Allison Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I told people, I take damage like a wall, a brick wall that never falls down, never feels anything, never flinches or remembers. I am one woman but I carry in my body all the stories I have ever been told, women I have known, women who have taken damage until they tell themselves they can feel no pain at all (Dorothy Allison Quotes) Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time (Dorothy Allison Quotes) Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told (Dorothy Allison Quotes) 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 Quotes) I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means (Dorothy Allison Quotes) I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else’s was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared (Dorothy Allison Quotes) Behind the story I tell is the one I don’t... Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear (Dorothy Allison Quotes) 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 (Dorothy Allison Quotes) And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don’t think love saves you (Dorothy Allison Quotes)

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