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Dorothy Allison is an American writer known for her incisive social commentary and feminist literary works. Her writing often focuses on marginalized and overlooked groups, particularly women and the LGBTQ+ community. Born on April 11, 1949, Allison's writing career is marked by a deep exploration of issues related to gender, class, and race.

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“It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I thought literature should do - which was simply to push people into changing their ideas about the world, and to go further, to encourage us in the work of changing the world, to making it more just and more truly human.”

People World Should Writing Humans Ideas Literature Difficult Changing The World

Author:Dorothy Allison

“stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.”

Knows World Way Heart Stories Changing The World

Book:Two Or Three Things I Know for Sure

Source: Two Or Three Things I Know for Sure

“Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.”

World Heart Grief Conscience Towns Drunk Sober Small Town

Author:Dorothy Allison

“The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)”

World Way Book Wanted Father Felt Worst Library Worst Things Daddy Robinson Crusoe

Author:Dorothy Allison

“People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.”

People Ifs World Make Sense

Book:Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel

Source: Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel

“I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.”

World Trying Reason Wanted Imagine

Book:Trash

Source: Trash

“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.”

Knows World Made Two Three Naked Coats Three Things

Author:Dorothy Allison

“Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go on living I have to tell stories, that stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world”

Knows World Way Heart Two Stories Three Goes On Changing The World Three Things

Book:Two Or Three Things I Know for Sure

Source: Two Or Three Things I Know for Sure

“I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.”

World Wanted Change Changed Revelations

Book:Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

Source: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

“There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.”

World Way Believe Reason Literature Belief Healing Greater This Life Mortality Throat Righteous Power Of Love Always Alone Righteous Anger

Book:Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

Source: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature

“And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.”

Book:Conversations with Dorothy Allison

Source: Conversations with Dorothy Allison

“Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.”

World Kids Girl Can Do Fiction Fantasy Reader Science Fiction Forbidden Fantasy Worlds

Author:Dorothy Allison

About the Author

Born: April 11, 1949
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 95

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