Quotes by Dorothy Allison

About Dorothy Allison:

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.
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My family of friends has kept me alive through lovers who have left, enterprises that have failed, and all too many stories that never got finished. That family has been part of remaking the world for me.

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Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will comfort and enlighten someone else. What then is my responsibility? What am I to restrain? What am I to fear and alter--my own nakedness or the grief ...

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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...

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If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and stor...

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

Dorothy Allison

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

Dorothy Allison

The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.

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My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to reach everyone. Therefore you had to do as much as you could in the service of something you genuinely believed in. And if you do that and...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameDorothy Allison
  • Descriptionpoet, novelist, critic
  • BornApril 11, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Author; Novelist
  • AwardsLambda Literary Award