Dorothy Allison Quotes

"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
(Related: World)

"Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Truth, Fiction, Lies, Meaning)

"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
(Related: Love, People, Responsibility, Right, Students, Will)

"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Women)

"One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Class, Contempt)

"When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Romance, Sister, Books, Growing up, Horror)

"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Change, Open)