Dorothy Allison - Love Quotes

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Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence.

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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.

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That was what gospel was meant to do — make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.

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The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe.

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People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

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Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

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There 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.

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And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.

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