Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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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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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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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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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.
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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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Life is too short to be miserable.
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Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
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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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Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?
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Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.
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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
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I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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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 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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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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The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.