Dorothy Allison Quotes

Dorothy Allison — American Writer born on April 11, 1949,

Dorothy Allison is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Her writing includes themes of class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. She is a self-identified lesbian femme. She has won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards... (wikipedia)

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.

I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy of 'Bastard.' I want my view of the world to be right up there next to gallon boxes of Tide.

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.

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

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