Dorothy Allison

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.