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“Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.”
― Dorothy Allison

“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.”
― Dorothy Allison

“Write to your fear.”
― Dorothy Allison

“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. (209)”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

“He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina