Dorothy Allison Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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.

  Dorothy Allison

  Knowing, Giving, Joy

• I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.

  Dorothy Allison

  True Friend, Believe, Giving

• People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.

  Dorothy Allison

  Writing, Order, People

• If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.

  Dorothy Allison

  Children, Writing, Years

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.145, Open Road Media

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