Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
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Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.
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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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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
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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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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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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
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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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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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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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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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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
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Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
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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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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
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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.