my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.
Dorothy AllisonI was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.
Dorothy Allison