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Dorothy Allison is an American writer from South Carolina whose writing focuses on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. She is a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison has won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. April 1949
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Dorothy Allison Quotes

“I want to have adventures and take enormous risks and be everything they say we are and not give a damn what anyone says.”

Dorothy Allison

Foreword to My Dangerous Desire: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home by Amber L. Hollibaugh, pg. xii.
Context: I want to write a great book — I want to make a difference — I want to have adventures and take enormous risks and be everything they say we are and not give a damn what anyone says.

“I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Neither is anyone I have ever cared deeply about.”

Dorothy Allison

Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

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