Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure
Dorothy AllisonStichwörter: inspirational women
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.
Dorothy AllisonPeople 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.
Dorothy Allisonshe got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant
Dorothy AllisonClass, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
Dorothy AllisonStichwörter: personhood
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
Dorothy AllisonTwenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.
Dorothy AllisonStichwörter: family-relationships
I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my terrors and helplessness, to make it visible and real in a tangible way, in the way other people's seemed real -- the lives I had read about in books.
Dorothy AllisonStichwörter: writing
Why write stories? To join the conversation.
Dorothy AllisonI 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.
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