Quotes by Dorothy Allison

• Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
• 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.
• Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to 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.
• I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.
• One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
• When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
• Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.