Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
Quotes to Explore
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I really didn't like 'Done With Mirrors.' I really didn't like 'Just Push Play.' Then there are other records I really think were good for their time, like 'Toys and Rocks.'
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Smart and savvy, the fearless female member of George Washington's Secret Six is a testament to the strong women who have helped to alter the course of history in this great nation, both in terms of large-scale battles and in the new opportunities they have helped create for future generations through their own fearless examples.
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Always my collections are made of different influences.
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A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
