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Life is too short to be miserable.
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
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An army of lovers shall not fail.
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Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
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It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.
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Self-pity is the simplest luxury.
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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.
Rita Mae Brown -
many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
Rita Mae Brown
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
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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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For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
Rita Mae Brown -
Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
Rita Mae Brown -
All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.
Rita Mae Brown
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
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No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
Rita Mae Brown -
friendship is love made bearable.
Rita Mae Brown
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Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
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Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.
Rita Mae Brown -
I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown -
In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.
Rita Mae Brown