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Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.
Rita Mae Brown -
Writers will happen in the best of families.
Rita Mae Brown
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About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Rita Mae Brown -
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 -
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.
Rita Mae Brown -
Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
Rita Mae Brown -
Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
Rita Mae Brown -
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
Rita Mae Brown
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown -
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 -
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
Rita Mae Brown -
friendship is love made bearable.
Rita Mae Brown -
Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!
Rita Mae Brown -
Don't hope more than you're willing to work.
Rita Mae Brown
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Rita Mae Brown -
the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.
Rita Mae Brown -
We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
Rita Mae Brown -
In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
Rita Mae Brown -
Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.
Rita Mae Brown -
I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
Rita Mae Brown
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There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.
Rita Mae Brown -
Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
Rita Mae Brown -
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
Rita Mae Brown -
When God made man she was practicing.
Rita Mae Brown