Quotes by : Dorothy Allison

I became a feminist activist propelled in part by outrage and despair, and a stubborn determination to....

My family of friends has kept me alive through lovers who have left, enterprises that have failed, and....

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

What are you so angry about?" my mother had asked me the last time I had gone home to visit.Why aren't....

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me....

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little....

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know....

Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for....