Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
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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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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
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Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
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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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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
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No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
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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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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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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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I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
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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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A narcissism shared by two.
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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 believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.
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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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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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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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I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
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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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The only people are those who don't love anybody.
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Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.