I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.
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 AllisonPeople begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.
Dorothy AllisonDelia 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.
Dorothy AllisonThere 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.
Dorothy Allison