Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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The only people are those who don't love anybody.
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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.
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What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
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Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
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Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
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Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.
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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.
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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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.
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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
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Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.