Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.
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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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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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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 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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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 reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
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The only people are those who don't love anybody.
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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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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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No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
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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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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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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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A narcissism shared by two.
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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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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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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
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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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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.