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Dorothy Allison Quotes

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.

Dorothy Allison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Responsibility People Enough

In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

Jim Ryun

Security Growing Within Entitlement

When a woman confuses what she is with what she wears, then something is wrong inside.

Sonia Rykiel

Woman Wrong She Inside Something

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.

Tom Selleck

Relationship Culture Experience Woman

I think breakfast is really important to get a great start to the day, so I can have enough energy to train and everything.

Jordyn Wieber

Great Day Breakfast Start Energy

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

Dolly Parton

Money Look Cheap Costs Lot

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Douglas Horton

Value Sorry Seeing Selfishness Act

I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.

Demetri Martin

Me Think Blush First Hard Always

Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.

Doug Ducey

Born Product Class Here Us Working

Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.

Antony Beevor

History Past People Voice Want Give

Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.

Pope Benedict XVI

Faith Reflection Product My Own Own

Rod's not very good at confrontations; he would rather walk away and avoid something rather than go into it.

Penny Lancaster

Good Walk Go Away Something Avoid

I think in my life I have so many things that changed so much with work and my career, and I don't really get to plan out a lot of my days. So when I have something that's familiar - just something that's there - I don't really like to switch it up.

Sevyn Streeter

Life Work Think My Life Plan Career