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Mama 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 Allison

It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I thought literature should do — which was simply to push people into changing their ideas about the world, and to go further, to encourage us in the work of changing the world, to making it more just and more truly human.

Dorothy Allison

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

Dorothy Allison