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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

~Dorothy Allison

Topics: Change Cracks Everything Open

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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

Topics: Categories Categorize Class Dismiss Each Gender Inside Need Other Race Sexuality Which

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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.

~Dorothy Allison

Topics: Coat Go Know Made Me Naked Rather Sure Than Things Three Two Wear World

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I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

~Dorothy Allison

Topics: Been Could Died Different Family Gave Me Monster Movement Something Sport Think Understanding Vision Women Would I Think

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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

~Dorothy Allison

Topics: About Fiction Fun Life People Tease Where

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I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

~Dorothy Allison

Topics: Been Died Movement Think Women Would I Think

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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

~Dorothy Allison

Topics: Always Books Growing Growing Up Horror Novels Read Romance Sister Up While

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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

Topics: About Absolute Against Characters Enough Know Large Love Love You Make People Responsibility Right Students Tell Them Will Write You

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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

~Dorothy Allison

Topics: Accustomed Am Background Class Contempt Derive Strengths I Am

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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

~Dorothy Allison

Topics: Fiction Lies Meaning Piece Truth Turns

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 11th, 1949

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