I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.
Dorothy AllisonMama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.
Dorothy AllisonI think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.
Dorothy Allison