Dorothy Allison Quotes

Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.

Dorothy Allison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 11, 1949

Topics

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The best answer and the best way forward to young women out there who want to get ahead is work your tail off. Work harder than everybody. Be better than everybody else. Do better. Try harder.

Megyn Kelly

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If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.

John Major

GoodTimeMenLongYouLook

With electronic music, you are not confined to the acoustics of a concert-hall, and that inspired me to bring my performances outdoors.

Jean-Michel Jarre

MusicMeOutdoorsYouBring

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

Tony Abbott

LifeBetterYouVillageNowBigger

I believe you can make your better half feel special on any given day and turn it in Valentine's Day.

Rithvik Dhanjani

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Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!

Dorothy Stratten

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I was very bookish and shy. I didn't have playmates, ever.

Bobbie Ann Mason

ShyVeryEver

You can't talk about yourself in the third party - that makes you a lunatic!

Anton du Beke

YourselfYouPartyTalkThirdAbout

You want to have enough of a profile to be able to do all the work you can, but at the same time you want to have your own space. But there are a lot of actors who achieve it, a lot of movie stars even, people like Emily Watson and Cate Blanchett. They seem to be able to carry on with their lives and still produce wonderful, high-profile work.

Anne-Marie Duff

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Phyllis McGinley

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If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

Sylvia Plath

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There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each other, and that's the health of the nation.

Rick Perlstein

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