Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allisonis an American writer from South Carolina whose writing expresses 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. She was elected in xxxx as a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth11 April 1949
CountryUnited States of America
memories terrible
I have a terrible memory.
thinking world
And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.
love-you writing character
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.
thinking movement ifs
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.
mother pieces stolen
Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.
friendly balance tongue
she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant
girl mean writing
Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that.
nice writing people
I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.
healing cracks allison
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
eye blessing long
Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning’s a sin, it’s pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I’m fine.
writing libertarian boring
What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
survival desire
... survival is the least of my desires.
truth lying church
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.
writing order giving
People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.