Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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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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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
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The only people are those who don't love anybody.
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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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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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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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You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
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One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
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all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.
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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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Life is too short to be miserable.
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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
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Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?
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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.