Dorothy Allison Quotes

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets.

I feel like I'm the voice for my generation, especially for women.

To transform the world women need to strive for authenticity.

Women had been on the verge of taking over the world-the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented the cell phone and women took a sidetrack on which all four billion of them would soon be happily talking to each other twenty-four hours a day, getting nothing else done, and Men Would Be Back.

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

We woman suffragists have a great mission - the greatest mission the world has ever known. It is to free half the human race, and through that freedom to save the rest.

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.

I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything.

Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they became a librarian or something. I've heard women say again and again when the subject of Germaine comes up: 'Well, her book changed my life for the better.' And they'll be modest women living pretty ordinary lives, but better lives.

I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.

The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its course—it no longer serves the needs of men or women and in its inextricable linkage to militarism, hierarchy, and racism it threatens the very existence of life on earth. What will come after, what kind of structure will be the foundation for alternate forms of social organization we cannot yet know. We are living in an age of unprecedented transformation. We are in the process of becoming.

Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

I will make this world a better place, whether they like it or not. That’s the fun of being Queen.

Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.

To me, being a woman in 2016 is allowing myself to contain multitudes. Looking at who's given the space to do so and why.

You write in order to change the world.

I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world.

Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

A woman has just as much right in this world as a man and can get along in it just as well if she puts her mind to it.