Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.
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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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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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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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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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Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.
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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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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 reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
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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 only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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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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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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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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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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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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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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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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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.