Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.
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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.
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Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.
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People are like tea bags; you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
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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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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
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Political elections are not life and death.
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.
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Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.
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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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Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
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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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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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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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Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
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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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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.
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I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.