"Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told."

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Source : Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.47, Penguin

Dorothy Allison

#Children Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Believe Quotes

“I didn't really feel I was being hurt, but you could feel it.”

Source : "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.
“There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.”
“I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.”
“In a country like Iraq with its culture of blood feuds - is that the more locals are killed, the more motivation there is for the insurgency, for the insurgents the more feelings of revenge there are, and in the end the more the operational security of the soldiers suffers, because any soldier who kills an infant today is grooming the killer of his mate tomorrow.”
“We all have our individual romantic or idealistic ideas. To get information that masturbation is our basic form of sex is hard, because who wants to admit they're masturbating?”
“I think that everybody has acknowledged that, in controlling foxes, hunting is hardly used as a method at all. To say that other ways of killing foxes, such as shooting, are crueller is to accuse all those people who work in the countryside of being more cruel than they need to be. In all the time that I have lived in and represented the countryside, I have seen no evidence that those people have that view.”
“I don't like working out with lots of makeup because I don't like it getting into my pores.”
“True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.”

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