Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
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A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
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My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.
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I can say, out of my whole life, my dad left the situation at an early age for me; he left. But my mum turned her back on me.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.
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If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions.
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But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.
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Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.
