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Dorothy Allison Quotes

Dorothy Allison quotes

American Writer April 11, 1949

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When I finally let someone into my narrow bed, the first thing I told her was what I could not do. I said, "I can't fix it, girl. I can't fix anything. If you don't as me to fix it, you can ask anything else. If you can say what you need, I'll try to give it to you. Dorothy Allison
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them. Dorothy Allison
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
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
Dorothy Allison quote: "I was born trash in a land where the people all believe..."
I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats. Dorothy Allison
Before I published any of my own stories, I read a great many stories by people as passionate about writing as I was, and I learned something from everyone I read -- something most important what I should not try to write. Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison quote: "Change, when it comes, cracks everything open."
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison quote: "I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and..."
I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft. Dorothy Allison
I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling. Dorothy Allison
I could not stand it, neither the words on the page nor what they told me about myself. My neck and teeth began to ache, and I was not at all sure I really wanted to live with that stuff inside me. But holding onto them, reading them over again, became a part of the process of survival, of deciding once more to live--and clinging to that decision. Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison quote: "I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's..."
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison quote: "One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that..."
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison quote: "Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me."
Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me. Dorothy Allison
We all nourish truth with our tongues not in sour-batter words that never take shape nor line-driven stories bent to skirt the edgeof our great exhaustion, desire, and doubt. We all use simply the words of our own livesto say what we really want, to lie spent on our lovers, put teeth to all we hate, to strain the juice of our history between what has been allowed and what has always been denied, the active desire to take hold of the root. Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison quote: "Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something..."
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure Dorothy Allison

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