Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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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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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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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'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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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
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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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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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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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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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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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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 reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
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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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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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I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
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A narcissism shared by two.
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No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
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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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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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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.