Famous quotes containing the word allison:
“I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“... fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer’s courage.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us—extraordinary.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)