Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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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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A narcissism shared by two.
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
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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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You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
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No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
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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've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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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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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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I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
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One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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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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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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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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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
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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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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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Life is too short to be miserable.