Rita Mae Brown Quotes

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

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• I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

  

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• I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.

  

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• We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

  

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• When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.

  

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• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

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• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

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• I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

  

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• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  

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• British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.

  

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• As a Christian, I view relationships and marriage as being between a man and a woman.

  

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• Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

  

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• I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.

  

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• Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

  

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• We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.

  

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• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

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• I love men who make me laugh.

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• Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

  

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• The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People might walk through me. And what is this moment of time, this particular day in which I have found myself caught? The growl of traffic might be any uproar - forest trees or the roar of wild beasts. Time has whizzed back an inch or two on its reel; our short progress has been cancelled. I think also that our bodies are in truth naked. We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.

  

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• It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

  

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• A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public.

  

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• We should not rely on our feelings; we had to walk by faith and not by sight. If we preserve in the Lord, we always succeed.

  

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• My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Men
  • Women
  • Giving