Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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The owner of Mojo's was a suicide blonde, dyed by her own hand.
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Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
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England is an aquarium, not a nation.
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One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"
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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.
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compromise is the work of mature people.
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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
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Tennis is physical chess.
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I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.
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Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.
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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.
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Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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Pain isn't always the enemy.
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sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.
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Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.
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I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK.
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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.