Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.
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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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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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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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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
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Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.
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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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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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I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.
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I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
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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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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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Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.
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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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Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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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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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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Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?
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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.
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Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.