[What kind of women might we be if we did not have to worry about being too sexual, or not sexual enough, or the wrong kind of sexual for the company we keep?]

Quote from Public Silence, Private Terror by Dorothy Allison (in Pleasure and Danger ed. Carol S. Vance, 1984). Photo of Vanessa Del Rio in Born B1tches No 1 (1981). #VanessaDelRio #DorothyAllison #Feminism

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My snuggly reading helper #tuxedocat #catsky #Cavedweller #DorothyAllison #catsofbluesky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

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Day 11
This one hurt. #DorothyAllison

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Cover of Bastard Out Of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days.

No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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7/20

A beautiful writer and beautiful friend has left us. Her work put so much good in the world. #DorothyAllison
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Bastard Out of Carolina (Anniversary) a book by Dorothy Allison A profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South and "an essential novel" (The New Yorker) "As close to flawless as any reader could ask for . . . The living language [Allison] has created ...

Bastard out of Carolina shook us to our collective core when it arrived in 1992. It still quakes.

Both championed and banned, Dorothy Allison's masterpiece is a profound legacy.

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I just heard that Dorothy Allison died a couple of days ago, and I really can't take any more horribly depressing news. She was one of the very best writers I have ever read, and a world without her is a much more hollow place. RIP. #DorothyAllison

Picture of author Dorothy Allison, silver haired, blue button down, wearing a bright red scarf.

Farewell, dear Dorothy Allison, with your wonderful laugh, quick wit, singular generosity. Thank you for teaching me what really matters in the writing world. For breaking the silence for so many survivors. How much you mean to so many. You will be deeply missed. 💔 #DorothyAllison

Me in a loving embrace with Dorothy.

She was my hero. My kin. Travel on you fearless, brilliant soul. RIP #DorothyAllison.

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From @lennyletter: @surlybassey in conversation with #DorothyAllison about growing up poor & proving the world wrong http://bit.ly/2rarg1K