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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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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In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
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It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.
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We understand that America's prosperity is bound up with the prosperity of other nations, including emerging market nations.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.
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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.
