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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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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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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The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.
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My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.
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I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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The cradle-to-grave welfare state diminishes individual initiative and can breed a pervasive sclerosis.
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Expanding traditional energy sources like large-scale hydropower does not mean just accepting what Northern Pass has put on the table, and no one should accept Northern Pass's assertion that the only way for New England to access Canadian hydropower is to trade away the majestic beauty of the White Mountains.
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Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.
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I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
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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.
