Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.
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Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
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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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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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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
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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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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.
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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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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.
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What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
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A narcissism shared by two.
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The only people are those who don't love anybody.
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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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Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
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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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I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
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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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I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.