Quotes by : Dorothy Allison

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

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked....

Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will comfort....

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of....

I made my life, the same way it looks like you're gonna make yours—out of pride and stubbornness and....

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

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

If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces....

Write to your fear.

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