Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.
Dorothy Allison... 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 AllisonTwo 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 AllisonEverything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. Thatโs all you need to know in this lifeโฆjust the certainty that Godโs got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioningโs a sin, itโs pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, Iโm fine.
Dorothy Allison