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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 -
It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
Rita Mae Brown
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Rita Mae Brown -
The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.
Rita Mae Brown -
I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
Rita Mae Brown -
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 -
A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
Rita Mae Brown -
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
Rita Mae Brown -
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Rita Mae Brown -
Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.
Rita Mae Brown -
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
Rita Mae Brown -
I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.
Rita Mae Brown -
Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
Rita Mae Brown
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Tennis is physical chess.
Rita Mae Brown -
People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.
Rita Mae Brown -
Pain isn't always the enemy.
Rita Mae Brown -
Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.
Rita Mae Brown -
No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.
Rita Mae Brown -
One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"
Rita Mae Brown
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Normal is the average of deviance.
Rita Mae Brown -
I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.
Rita Mae Brown -
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.
Rita Mae Brown -
Political elections are not life and death.
Rita Mae Brown