Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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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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Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.
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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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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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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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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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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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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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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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The only people are those who don't love anybody.
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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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I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
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Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.
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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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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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A narcissism shared by two.
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Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.