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People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
Rita Mae Brown
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Rita Mae Brown
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As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.
Rita Mae Brown
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
Rita Mae Brown
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I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.
Rita Mae Brown
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Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
Rita Mae Brown
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
Rita Mae Brown
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
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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
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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
Rita Mae Brown
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Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
Rita Mae Brown
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What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.
Rita Mae Brown
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
Rita Mae Brown
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There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
Rita Mae Brown
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Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.
Rita Mae Brown
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friendship is love made bearable.
Rita Mae Brown
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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
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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.
Rita Mae Brown
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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
Rita Mae Brown
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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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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
Rita Mae Brown
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Divorce: fission after fusion.
Rita Mae Brown
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Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
Rita Mae Brown
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The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
Rita Mae Brown
